python regex: get end digits from a string

Question

I am quite new to python and regex (regex newbie here), and I have the following simple string:

s=r\"\"\"99-my-name-is-John-Smith-6376827-%^-1-2-767980716\"\         


        

Answer 1

Nice and simple with findall:

import re

s=r"""99-my-name-is-John-Smith-6376827-%^-1-2-767980716"""

print re.findall('^.*-([0-9]+)$',s)

>>> ['767980716']

Regex Explanation:

^         # Match the start of the string
.*        # Followed by anthing
-         # Upto the last hyphen
([0-9]+)  # Capture the digits after the hyphen
$         # Upto the end of the string

Or more simply just match the digits followed at the end of the string '([0-9]+)$'