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Kairos F
19,925 PointsMy regex seems to be doing the right thing, but it's not passing?
Anyone have ideas what I'm doing wrong?
import re
string = '''Love, Kenneth, kenneth+challenge@teamtreehouse.com, 555-555-5555, @kennethlove
Chalkley, Andrew, andrew@teamtreehouse.co.uk, 555-555-5556, @chalkers
McFarland, Dave, dave.mcfarland@teamtreehouse.com, 555-555-5557, @davemcfarland
Kesten, Joy, joy@teamtreehouse.com, 555-555-5558, @joykesten'''
contacts = re.search(r'''
(?P<email>[\w.]+@[\w.]+),\s #email address
(?P<phone>\d{3}-\d{3}-\d{4}) #phone number
''', string, re.X|re.M )
1 Answer
Sean Manners
14,816 PointsHi there!
I do hope you've found your answer already - Regex is rough (to me, anyway). They throw a bit of a curveball in with kenneth's email on that challenge, as it has a '+' involved, so you'll have to include that in your set:
import re
string = '''Love, Kenneth, kenneth+challenge@teamtreehouse.com, 555-555-5555, @kennethlove
Chalkley, Andrew, andrew@teamtreehouse.co.uk, 555-555-5556, @chalkers
McFarland, Dave, dave.mcfarland@teamtreehouse.com, 555-555-5557, @davemcfarland
Kesten, Joy, joy@teamtreehouse.com, 555-555-5558, @joykesten'''
contacts = re.search(r'''
(?P<email>[\w+\d.]+@[\w\d.\w]*),\s #email address
(?P<phone>\d{3}-\d{3}-\d{4}) #phone number
''', string, re.X|re.M )