Unexpected (?) result with regular expressions

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Jan-18-2020, 02:33 PM (This post was last modified: Jan-18-2020, 02:33 PM by DeaD_EyE.)

Try this regex:

re.sub('libreoffice-still [^0-9]*([0-9\.\-]*)', r'LibreOffice \1', "libreoffice-still 6.2.8-4")

The regex begins now with libreoffice-still

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RE: Unexpected (?) result with regular expressions - by DeaD_EyE - Jan-18-2020, 02:33 PM

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