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.
Cet exercice fait partie du cours
Regular Expressions in Python
Exercice interactif pratique
Essayez cet exercice en complétant cet exemple de code.
# Write a lazy regex expression
numbers_found_lazy = re.____(r"____", ____)
# Print out the result
print(numbers_found_lazy)