Regular expression in Python won't match end of a string

Question

I\'m just learning Python, and I can\'t seem to figure out regular expressions.

r1 = re.compile(\"$.pdf\")
if r1.match(\"spam.pdf\"):
    print \'yes\'
else:
            


        

Answer 1

The regular expression $.pdf says "find the end of the string, then find any character and beyond the any character beyond the end of the string, find a p, a d and an f".

As written, it cannot sensibly match anything.

However, pdf$ would match.

In this specific case, you probably also want to do a search rather than match, as I believe match is inherently anchored at the start of the string.