Unable to use pyperclip and regex to search for a pattern?

Asked Oct 15 '19 at 17:10

Active Oct 16 '19 at 02:03

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While this seems very sketchy, I am doing this for my MGMT288 class, and am trying to create a program that searches for a SSN from a group of copied text. I have very little python background, and am just exploring regex and in extension pyperclip. Currently my code in the entirety looks like this.

import re,pyperclip

SSNREG=re.compile(r'(\d{3})(-)?(\d{2})(-)?(\d{4})')
SSN=[]
CB=pyperclip.paste()

for groups in SSNREG.findall(CB):
    SSN.append(groups[0])
if len(SSN)>0:
    pyperclip.copy('\n'.join(CB))
    print('Copied '+len(CB)+' SSN\'s to clipboard!')
    print('\n'.join(CB))
else:
    print('There were no SSN\'s to be found in the text.')

Whenever I have a 3-2-4 digit number copied with the dashes, it still prints out that there were no SSN's in the clipboard, and I can't figure out what's wrong.

I've just changed the /d to \d and it still doesn't seem to find anything.

edited Oct 16 '19 at 02:03

asked Oct 15 '19 at 17:10

Donnie Smith

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You have to use a backslash `\d` to match a digit. If you don't need the capturing groups and the dashes are not optional, matching a 3-2-4 number could be `\d{3}-\d{2}-\d{4}` – The fourth bird Oct 15 '19 at 17:12
I think it should be `\d` not `/d` – Michał Turczyn Oct 15 '19 at 17:12

Unable to use pyperclip and regex to search for a pattern?

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