1.

Write a Python program to check that a string contains only a certain set of
characters (in this case a-z, A-Z and 0-9).
import re
def is_allowed_specific_char(string):
charRe = re.compile(r'[^a-zA-Z0-9.]')
string = charRe.search(string)
return not bool(string)

print(is_allowed_specific_char("ABCDEFabcdef123450"))
print(is_allowed_specific_char("*&%@#!}{"))

2. Write a Python program that matches a string that has an a followed by zero or
more b's.
import re
def text_match(text):
patterns = 'ab*?'
if re.search(patterns, text):
return 'Found a match!'
else:
return('Not matched!')

print(text_match("ac"))
print(text_match("abc"))
print(text_match("abbc"))

3. Write a Python program that matches a string that has an a followed by one or
more b's.

import re
def text_match(text):
patterns = 'ab+?'
if re.search(patterns, text):
return 'Found a match!'
else:
return('Not matched!')

print(text_match("ab"))
print(text_match("abc"))
4. Write a Python program that matches a string that has an a followed by zero or
one 'b'.
import re
def text_match(text):
patterns = 'ab?'
if re.search(patterns, text):
return 'Found a match!'
else:
return('Not matched!')

print(text_match("ab"))
print(text_match("abc"))
print(text_match("abbc"))
print(text_match("aabbc"))

5. Write a Python program that matches a string that has an a followed by three
'b'.
import re
def text_match(text):
patterns = 'ab{3}?'
if re.search(patterns, text):
return 'Found a match!'
else:
return('Not matched!')

print(text_match("abbb"))
print(text_match("aabbbbbc"))

6. Write a Python program that matches a string that has an a followed by two to
three 'b'.
import re
def text_match(text):
patterns = 'ab{2,3}?'
if re.search(patterns, text):
return 'Found a match!'
else:
return('Not matched!')

print(text_match("ab"))
print(text_match("aabbbbbc"))
7. Write a Python program to find sequences of lowercase letters joined with a
underscore.
import re
def text_match(text):
patterns = '^[a-z]+_[a-z]+$'
if re.search(patterns, text):
return 'Found a match!'
else:
return('Not matched!')

print(text_match("aab_cbbbc"))
print(text_match("aab_Abbbc"))
print(text_match("Aaab_abbbc"))

8. Write a Python program to find sequences of one upper case letter followed by
lower case letters.

import re
def text_match(text):
patterns = '^[a-z]+_[a-z]+$'
if re.search(patterns, text):
return 'Found a match!'
else:
return('Not matched!')

print(text_match("aab_cbbbc"))
print(text_match("aab_Abbbc"))
print(text_match("Aaab_abbbc"))

9. Write a Python program that matches a string that has an 'a' followed by
anything, ending in 'b'.
import re

def text_match(text):

patterns = 'a.*?b$'

if re.search(patterns, text):

return 'Found a match!'

else:

return('Not matched!')
print(text_match("aabbbbd"))

print(text_match("aabAbbbc"))

print(text_match("accddbbjjjb"))

10. Write a Python program that matches a word at the beginning of a string.
import re
def text_match(text):
patterns = '^\w+'
if re.search(patterns, text):
return 'Found a match!'
else:
return('Not matched!')

print(text_match("The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog."))

print(text_match(" The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog."))

11. Write a Python program that matches a word at end of string, with optional
punctuation.
import re
def text_match(text):
patterns = '\w+\S*$'
if re.search(patterns, text):
return 'Found a match!'
else:
return('Not matched!')

print(text_match("The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog."))

print(text_match("The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. "))
print(text_match("The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog "))

12. Write a Python program that matches a word containing 'z'.

import re
def text_match(text):
patterns = '\w*z.\w*'
if re.search(patterns, text):
return 'Found a match!'
else:
return('Not matched!')
print(text_match("The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog."))
print(text_match("Python Exercises."))

13. Write a Python program that matches a word containing 'z', not start or end of
the word.
import re
def text_match(text):
patterns = '\Bz\B'
if re.search(patterns, text):
return 'Found a match!'
else:
return('Not matched!')

print(text_match("The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog."))

print(text_match("Python Exercises."))

14. Write a Python program to match a string that contains only upper and
lowercase letters, numbers, and underscores.

import re
def text_match(text):
patterns = '^[a-zA-Z0-9_]*$'
if re.search(patterns, text):
return 'Found a match!'
else:
return('Not matched!')

print(text_match("The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog."))

print(text_match("Python_Exercises_1"))

15. Write a Python program where a string will start with a specific number.

import re
def match_num(string):
text = re.compile(r"^5")
if text.match(string):
return True
else:
return False
print(match_num('5-2345861'))
print(match_num('6-2345861'))

16. Write a Python program to remove leading zeros from an IP address.

import re
ip = "216.08.094.196"
string = re.sub('\.[0]*', '.', ip)
print(string)

17. Write a Python program to check for a number at the end of a string.
import re
def end_num(string):
text = re.compile(r".*[0-9]$")
if text.match(string):
return True
else:
return False

print(end_num('abcdef'))
print(end_num('abcdef6'))

18. Write a Python program to search the numbers (0-9) of length between 1 to 3
in a given string.

"Exercises number 1, 12, 13, and 345 are important"

import re
results = re.finditer(r"([0-9]{1,3})", "Exercises number 1, 12, 13,
and 345 are important")
print("Number of length 1 to 3")
for n in results:
print(n.group(0))

20. Write a Python program to search a literals string in a string and also find the
location within the original string where the pattern occurs.

Sample text : 'The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.'
Searched words : 'fox'

import re
pattern = 'fox'
text = 'The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.'
match = re.search(pattern, text)
s = match.start()
e = match.end()
print('Found "%s" in "%s" from %d to %d ' % \
 (match.re.pattern, match.string, s, e))

26. Write a Python program to match if two words from a list of words starting
with letter 'P'.
import re

# Sample strings.
words = ["Python PHP", "Java JavaScript", "c c++"]

for w in words:
m = re.match("(P\w+)\W(P\w+)", w)
# Check for success
if m:
print(m.groups())

28. Write a Python program to find all words starting with 'a' or 'e' in a given
string.
import re
# Input.
text = "The following example creates an ArrayList with a capacity of
50 elements. Four elements are then added to the ArrayList and the
ArrayList is trimmed accordingly."
#find all the words starting with 'a' or 'e'
list = re.findall("[ae]\w+", text)
# Print result.
print(list)

31. Write a Python program to replace all occurrences of space, comma, or dot
with a colon.

import re
text = 'Python Exercises, PHP exercises.'
print(re.sub("[ ,.]", ":", text))

32. Write a Python program to replace maximum 2 occurrences of space,

comma, or dot with a colon.

import re
text = 'Python Exercises, PHP exercises.'
print(re.sub("[ ,.]", ":", text, 2))
36. Write a python program to convert camel case string to snake case string.

def camel_to_snake(text):
import re
str1 = re.sub('(.)([A-Z][a-z]+)', r'\1_\2', text)
return re.sub('([a-z0-9])([A-Z])', r'\1_\2', str1).lower()

print(camel_to_snake('PythonExercises'))

37. Write a python program to convert snake case string to camel case string.
def snake_to_camel(word):
import re
return ''.join(x.capitalize() or '_' for x in word.split('_'))

print(snake_to_camel('python_exercises'))

38. Write a Python program to extract values between quotation marks of a

string.
import re
text1 = '"Python", "PHP", "Java"'
print(re.findall(r'"(.*?)"', text1))

39. Write a Python program to remove multiple spaces in a string.

import re
text1 = 'Python Exercises'
print("Original string:",text1)
print("Without extra spaces:",re.sub(' +',' ',text1))

40. Write a Python program to remove all whitespaces from a string.

import re
text1 = ' Python Exercises '
print("Original string:",text1)
print("Without extra spaces:",re.sub(r'\s+', '',text1))

42. Write a Python program to find urls in a string.

import re
text = '<p>Contents :</p><a href="https://w3resource.com">Python
Examples</a><a href="http://github.com">Even More Examples</a>'
urls = re.findall('http[s]?://(?:[a-zA-Z]|[0-9]|[$-
_@.&+]|[!*\(\),]|(?:%[0-9a-fA-F][0-9a-fA-F]))+', text)
print("Original string: ",text)
print("Urls: ",urls)

43. Write a Python program to split a string at uppercase letters.

import re
text = "PythonTutorialAndExercises"
print(re.findall('[A-Z][^A-Z]*', text))

44. Write a Python program to do a case-insensitive string replacement.

import re
text = "PHP Exercises"
print("Original Text: ",text)
redata = re.compile(re.escape('php'), re.IGNORECASE)
new_text = redata.sub('Python', 'PHP Exercises')
print("Using 'php' replace PHP")
print("New Text: ",new_text)

48. Write a Python program to check a decimal with a precision of 2.

def is_decimal(num):
import re
dnumre = re.compile(r"""^[0-9]+(\.[0-9]{1,2})?$""")
result = dnumre.search(num)
return bool(result)

print(is_decimal('123.11'))
print(is_decimal('123.1'))
print(is_decimal('123'))
print(is_decimal('0.21'))

print(is_decimal('123.1214'))
print(is_decimal('3.124587'))
print(is_decimal('e666.86'))

49. Write a Python program to remove words from a string of length between 1
and a given number.
import re
text = "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog."
# remove words between 1 and 3
shortword = re.compile(r'\W*\b\w{1,3}\b')
print(shortword.sub('', text))

50. Write a Python program to remove the parenthesis area in a string.

Sample data : ["example (.com)", "w3resource", "github (.com)", "stackoverflow
(.com)"]
Expected Output:
example
w3resource
github
stackoverflow

import re
items = ["example (.com)", "w3resource", "github (.com)",
"stackoverflow (.com)"]
for item in items:
print(re.sub(r" ?\([^)]+\)", "", item))

51. Write a Python program to insert spaces between words starting with capital
letters.
import re
def capital_words_spaces(str1):
return re.sub(r"(\w)([A-Z])", r"\1 \2", str1)

print(capital_words_spaces("Python"))
print(capital_words_spaces("PythonExercises"))
print(capital_words_spaces("PythonExercisesPracticeSolution"))