Regex does not match date string in python

Asked Jun 25 '20 at 11:07

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This should be easy for those who know regex but for some reason I can not understand why the pattern does not match:

p1 = re.compile('''(\d{2}       # Matches two digits -- e.g: 13
                \s*            # Matches any number of spaces
                -              # Matches the literal character -
                \s*            # Matches any number of spaces
                \d{2}          # Matches two digits -- e.g: 06
                \s*            # Matches any number of spaces
                -              # Matches the literal character -
                \s*            # Matches any number of spaces
                \d{4})          # Matches four digits -- e.g: 2017''', re.VERBOSE)


txt3 = 'date   13 – 06 - 2017.   '

p1.findall(txt3)
[]

Can you explain the failure? How the code should be corrected?

asked Jun 25 '20 at 11:07

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The pattern just does not match the string. The first dash is EN-dash, not a hyphen – Wiktor Stribiżew Jun 25 '20 at 11:12
Well it definitely has to do with the hyphens. – The Half-Blood Prince Jun 25 '20 at 11:16

Regex does not match date string in python

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