Regular Expression Not matching expression

Asked Aug 20 '18 at 14:03

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I am trying to find anything between [ and ] Here is what I have so far and isn't working. I am aware that I can use string.find("[") to get the positions but I am trying to get better at using regex.

string = '[12/Aug/2000:06:29:11 -]'
pattern = re.compile(r'[\[][.][\]]')
matches = pattern.finditer(string)
for match in matches:
    print(match)

asked Aug 20 '18 at 14:03

user3525290

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You mean `\[(.*?)\]` ? – Jon Clements Aug 20 '18 at 14:05
`m = re.search(r'\[([^][]+)]', s)` -> `if m:` -> `print(m.group(1))`. Or just `re.findall(r'\[([^][]+)]', s)` – Wiktor Stribiżew Aug 20 '18 at 14:13
What about `[^\[\]]+` ? – Florian Lavorel Aug 20 '18 at 14:26
Thanks for everyone's help. I am not good with regex but I am trying to get a hang of it. I ended up using `\[(.*?)\]` and that seems to work. – user3525290 Aug 20 '18 at 15:30

Regular Expression Not matching expression

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