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9. Using VERBOSE Flag to Make Regex Readable

Sumit Rawal answered on May 13, 2023 Popularity 1/10 Helpfulness 1/10

answer 9. Using VERBOSE Flag to Make Regex Readable

9. Using VERBOSE Flag to Make Regex Readable

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In some complicated scenarios, the regex may become more and more complex and unreadable. We definitely need a way to make it neater and cleaner.

Here comes the re.VERBOSE trick.

import re

text = "Yang, yang@example.com, 555-555-5555"
pattern = r"""
    (?P<name>\w+),\s
    (?P<email>\w+@\w+\.\w+),\s
    (?P<phone>\d{3}-\d{3}-\d{4})
"""

match = re.search(pattern, text, re.VERBOSE)
if match:
    print(match.group("name"))
    print(match.group("email"))
    print(match.group("phone"))
# Yang
# yang@example.com
# 555-555-5555

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