I have a requirement to find specific numbers in text however I'm getting false positives on substrings.
import re
test_string = """ <419501> :422675: 419508 adsfasdf11412129 """
regex_pattern = re.compile(r'(419501|422675|419508|412129)(\b|$)', re.I)
matches = re.findall(regex_pattern, test_string)
print matches
this works well in some cases however it gives me a false positive for this string:
adsfasdf11412129
Any instance of the number surrounded by white space, newlines, or special characters will be a valid hit. Any leading characters or numbers is a false positive. Any suggestions?
