Question

I have the following string:

The Wild won 2 – 1 over the Flames.

I need to extract the team names and the scores from that string. In Python I did the following:

 foo = re.findall(r'The (\w+) won (\d+) - (\d+) over the (\w+)\.', mystring)

Now the problem is, there are team names with whitespace in it like this:

The Red Wings won 4 – 3 over the Blue Jackets.

How would I go about writing a regexp that matches both of those string?

Answer 1

You can just edit your original regex to include spaces in the team name groups:

foo = re.findall(r'The ([\w ]+) won (\d+) - (\d+) over the ([\w ]+)\.', mystring)