Returning a line that has a regex on it

Asked Mar 08 '22 at 12:13

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I have a data that looks like this

data ="
john is 23 years old 
luca is 25 years old  
Samia is 25 years old 
"

I want to search for john and print the 23 years old

print(re.findall('john',data2))

this return john but I want to print 23 years old

asked Mar 08 '22 at 12:13

amine baiche

split your text by line and use `contains`. – Casimir et Hippolyte Mar 08 '22 at 12:21
Just because a line contains the contains `john`, that's no guarantee it must contain `x years old`. This seems like a flawed assumption, in general. – Tom Lord Mar 08 '22 at 12:28
It probably makes more sense to search for a pattern like `john is \d+ years old` – Tom Lord Mar 08 '22 at 12:29

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