Python Regular Expression Matching: ## ##

Question

I\'m searching a file line by line for the occurrence of ##random_string##. It works except for the case of multiple #...

pattern=\'##(.*?)##\'
prog=re.compile(p         


        

Answer 1

Adding + to regex, which means to match one or more character.

pattern='#+(.*?)#+'
prog=re.compile(pattern)

string='###HEY##'
result=prog.search(string)
print result.group(1)

Output:

HEY