Question

I’m trying to match the following text with a regex in Python 2.7

SUBCASE   8
SUBCASE   9
SUBCASE  10
SUBCASE  11

The number of spaces between “subcase” and the number drops from 3 to 2. I’m trying to use this regex in Python:

(SUBCASE)[\s+]([0-9]+)

Where am I going wrong? Shouldn’t the \s+ mean “catch any white spaces more than one”?

Answer 1

You’ll want:

SUBCASE\s+([0-9]+)

or

SUBCASE\s+(\d+)

Putting \s+ inside of [...] means, that you want precisely one symbol that either is a whitespace character, or a plus.