Question

I am trying to test True if my string “deed” will have “numbers or a blank” in the first 9 characters.

deed = "4472 0438 (N/A Online)$0"

I have tried the following, and several variations but always get back a True, when I try it on string that would should not return a True. So there is something I am doing wrong.

re.search("([\. 0-9]{0,6})",deed)

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated! Sorry, brand new to Regex.. but learning.

Answer 1

Try the following regular expression

re.search("(^[ 0-9]{9})", deed)

The expression "(^[ 0-9]{9})" locates the string at beginning of the line and only match if the first 9 characters are either numubers or blanks.