Simple Python Regex Find pattern

Question

I have a sentence. I want to find all occurrences of a word that start with a specific character in that sentence. I am very new to programming and Python, but from the li

Answer 1

I second the Dive Into Python recommendation. But it's basically:

m = re.findall(r'\bf.*?\b', 'a fast and friendly dog')
print(m)

\b means word boundary, and .*? ensures we store the whole word, but back off to avoid going too far (technically, ? is called a lazy operator).