Substrings in every position for regular expressions in Python

Question

I know one can calculate the number of appearances of a certain pattern in a given text as explained in this answered question.

Now, when defining terms for regular expressions, I am making use of commands such as

(r'.*ing$','VGER')

to define new patterns (in this case verbs in gerund time for words ending in 'ing').

My question is: how to define a similar pattern for word containing, say, the substring 'ng' in every position of the word?

Just use `ng`, `('ng','VGER')`. Are you sure you need a regex for this? — Wiktor Stribiżew, Nov 30 '18 at 09:30
I want to classify the words, so a name such as VGER has to be given. Your ('ng',VGER') looks for every appearance of 'ng' in every word of the text? — gibarian, Nov 30 '18 at 09:36

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 30 '18 at 10:59

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Just for clarification, I found the code by myself:

(r'.*ng','VGER')

works.

answered Nov 30 '18 at 10:59

gibarian

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