Regex in URL creates two columns

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#1

Hiya, can someone help me understand what’s happening here? The regex seems to work, however it splits the string in two - keeping both and creating hat seems to be a 2-D dataframe.

URL here: https://app.dataquest.io/m/369/advanced-regular-expressions/8/extracting-domains-from-urls

My code here:

pattern = r'(?<=(://))([\w\-\.]+)'
test_urls_clean = test_urls.str.extract(pattern, flags=re.I, expand=False)

Thank you!

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#2

Hi!
It seems that you´ve used 2 capture groups in your pattern, that´s why the result is a two-column dataframe.

The parenthesis around the :// create the capture group 0 and the parenthesis around the [\w\-\.]+ create the capture group 1.