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From: Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu>
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Subject: Re: Regular expression negative look-ahead
Date: 2 Jul 2013 12:15:10 GMT
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On 2013-07-01, Jason Friedman <jsf80238@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I have table names in this form:
> MY_TABLE
> MY_TABLE_CTL
> MY_TABLE_DEL
> MY_TABLE_RUN
> YOUR_TABLE
> YOUR_TABLE_CTL
> YOUR_TABLE_DEL
> YOUR_TABLE_RUN
>
> I am trying to create a regular expression that will return true for only
> these tables:
> MY_TABLE
> YOUR_TABLE

Use the "is not a word" character class on either end.

r"\WMY_TABLE\W"
r"\WYOUR_TABLE\W"

-- 
Neil Cerutti