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Python Regular Expressions in Python Introduction to Regular Expressions Word Length

Posted by dylan hamm
dylan hamm
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Don't really know why it isn't working

I have tried multiple things here and nothing seems to work. any suggestions?

word_length.py 
import re

# EXAMPLE:
# >>> find_words(4, "dog, cat, baby, balloon, me")
# ['baby', 'balloon']
def find_words(count, string):
    count = str(count)
    return re.findall(r'\w + count + \w', string)

1 Answer

Christopher Shaw
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Christopher Shaw
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Christopher Shaw
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Christopher Shaw
Python Web Development Techdegree Graduate 58,248 Points

Sorry for the delay, just spoted the question as unanswered.

You almost have it and are doing the right thing casting count to a string first, but next:

  1. You need the curly braces to specify the min length and leave the max lenght unset: {count,}
  2. Tou need to sort out your single quotation marks to correct the inline concatenation. 
return re.findall(r'\w{'+count+',}', string)