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Asked: 2026-05-24T07:59:11+00:00

I’m looking for a regular expression, implemented in Python, that will match on this

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I’m looking for a regular expression, implemented in Python, that will match on this text

WHERE PolicyGUID = '531B2310-403A-13DA-5964-E2EFA56B0753'

but will not match on this text

WHERE AsPolicy.PolicyGUID = '531B2310-403A-13DA-5964-E2EFA56B0753'

I’m doing this to find places in a large piece of SQL where the developer did not explicitly reference the table name. All I want to do is print the offending lines (the first WHERE clause above). I have all of the code done except for the regex.

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  1. Editorial Team
    re.compile('''WHERE [^.]+ =''')

    Here, the [] indicates “match a set of characters,” the ^ means “not” and the dot is a literal period. The + means “one or more.”

    Was that what you were looking for?

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