HI, I am not sure I understand the concept of named capturing group. Does it like SQL ‘%’, to capture a similar pattern from a string?
There is a Match column in the output data frame, what is it for and what does it mean?
The reason we put(?P<col-name> is to set up a name for a column in the returned dataframe,correct?
pattern = r"(?P<Years>[1-2][0-9]{3})"
Thank you !!
When you have a capture group, the name of the column for the capture group is number from 0. If you have multiple capture groups, say 3. The names of the columns are 0, 1, 2.
The ?P<col-name> inside a capture group is the syntax to rename the column.
So this pattern (?P<Years>[1-2][0-9]{3}) say name this column Years and [1-2] says find any number that starts with 1 or 2 as the starting number and [0-9]{3} says find any number between 0-9 that follows each other 3 times
So you can have matches like 1999, 2999, 1009, 1111 ...
Thank you!! it is so clear!!