How can I search for 00'00"000 using a regular expression?

Question

So I have a number substring that appears twice in my program that looks like this 00'00"000.

I was originally using the regular expression:

\d{2}\'\d{2}\"\d{3}

and it was working for a few days but now for some reason, it's not? Python's re library isn't finding these substrings at all anymore. What am I doing wrong here?

Code In question:

    elif message.content.startswith('%timegap'):
    if message.content == '%timegap -h':
        await client.send_message(message.channel,
                                  '```' + 'Usage: %timegap [time 1] [time 2]\n' + \
                                  """Example: %timegap 03'29"110 03'28"390""" + '```')
    else:
        time_list = re.findall("\d*\'\d+\"\d+", message.content)
        await client.send_message(message.channel, calculate_time_gap(time_list))

Maybe because the input does not contain matching substrings. Check for curly apostrophes/double quotes. — Wiktor Stribiżew, Sep 29 '17 at 08:19
can you give us an example of the text you're trying to get macthes from? — Shinra tensei, Sep 29 '17 at 08:19
Regex is fine, so the problem either lies on the input strings or on your code, which both are missing from the question. — Paco H., Sep 29 '17 at 08:19
An example of the text it's searching from: %timegap 03’14”800 03’14”800 — Zero, Sep 29 '17 at 08:20
I'm making a discord bot so it's getting the message content from a command I made — Zero, Sep 29 '17 at 08:20
Those are different quotes. They aren't `'` and `"`, they are `’` and `”`. — Paco H., Sep 29 '17 at 08:21
Okay, I was unaware that different types of quotes existed at all. My mind is blown. — Zero, Sep 29 '17 at 08:23

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 29 '17 at 08:23

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The quotes from your strings are not the same as the ones in your regex:

re.findall(r'\d{2}\’\d{2}\”\d{3}', '%timegap 03’14”800 03’14”800')
> ['03’14”800', '03’14”800']

answered Sep 29 '17 at 08:23

Paco H.

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I was unaware that there were different quotes. I assume a phone would give a different quote so now I have to check for either or. Thank you so much, I appreciate the help. – Zero Sep 29 '17 at 08:24

How can I search for 00'00"000 using a regular expression?

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