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Regular expressions made easy - building from components Archive wholeline = r"\d\d-...-\d\d\d\d\s+(\d\d):(\d\d):(\d\d.\d\d),\s+(-?\d+\.\d+),\s+(-?\d+\.\d+),(-?\d+\.\d+),\s+(-?\d+\.\d+),(-?\d+\.\d+),\s+(-?\d+\.\d+)" Yes No! date = r"\d\d-...-\d\d\d\d"Python Course I have just concluded - the full example is here - where a log file was to be analysed and a short report generated to highlight any changes in readings of over 1% from one line of the data to the next in any of the data columns.
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