Python regex `search` function
Python Regex search() function explained with examples.
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The Search Function
The search
function searches for first occurance of a re
pattern to string with optional flags.
Here is the syntax for this function −
re.search(pattern, string, flags=0)
Where,
pattern
is the regular expression to be matched,
string
is the string to be searched to match the pattern at the beginning of string and
flags
, which you can specify different flags using bitwise OR (|
).
Match Flags
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