So I have a string that looks like this:
"greeting = 'hello;'"
and I try to match this regexp to it:
"**'.*;.\*'"**
so that it detects that there is a ; char inside of two apostrophes on both sides. When I simply try this out on regex101.com it works, but when I copy paste this to python it doesn’t –
g = re.match("'**.\*;.\***'", "greeting = 'hello;'")
returns None
but simply putting '**.\*;.***' into regex on regex101 and greeting = 'hello;' into the text field there works (matches 'hello;' as intended).
How is this possible? How to fix this, so that it is correctly detected in Python also?
>Solution :
re.match has to match from the beginning of the string.
re.search will match anywhere in the string.