Greedy matching
Next, you see that numbers still appear in the text of the tweets. So, you decide to find all of them.
Let's imagine that you want to extract the number contained in the sentence I was born on April 24th. A lazy quantifier will make the regex return 2 and 4, because they will match as few characters as needed. However, a greedy quantifier will return the entire 24 due to its need to match as much as possible.
The re module as well as the variable sentiment_analysis are already loaded in your session. You can use print(sentiment_analysis) to view it in the IPython Shell.
This exercise is part of the course
Regular Expressions in Python
Hands-on interactive exercise
Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.
# Write a lazy regex expression
numbers_found_lazy = re.____(r"____", ____)
# Print out the result
print(numbers_found_lazy)