Exercises: Regexes part 1

Pick up a file with some text in it. Write a script (one for each item) that prints out every line from the file that matches the requirement. You can use the script at the end of the page as a starting point but you will have to change it!

• has a 'q'
• starts with a 'q'
• has 'th'
• has an 'q' or a 'Q'
• has a '*' in it
• starts with an 'q' or an 'Q'
• has both 'a' and 'e' in it
• has an 'a' and somewhere later an 'e'
• does not have an 'a'
• does not have an 'a' nor 'e'
• has an 'a' but not 'e'
• has at least 2 consecutive vowels (a,e,i,o,u) like in the word "bear"
• has at least 3 vowels
• has at least 6 characters
• has at exactly 6 characters
• all the words with either 'Bar' or 'Baz' in them
• all the rows with either 'apple pie' or 'banana pie' in them
• for each row print if it was apple or banana pie?
• Bonus: Print if the same word appears twice in the same line
• Bonus: has a double character (e.g. 'oo')

import sys
import re

if len(sys.argv) != 2:
    print("Usage:", sys.argv[0], "FILE")
    exit()

filename = sys.argv[1]
with open(filename, 'r') as fh:
    for line in fh:
        print(line, end=" ")

        match = re.search(r'REGEX1', line)
        if match:
            print("   Matching 1", match.group(0))

        match = re.search(r'REGEX2', line)
        if match:
            print("   Matching 2", match.group(0))