I'm using a straight forward regex pattern ('\s+') that is not ignoring white space?

For option one you wrote: result = regex. Search(line) if regex. Search(line): for option two you wrote: result = regex.

Search(re. Sub(r'\s+', '',line)) if regex. Search(line): If your have a result variable, then use it in your if-statement.

I'm sorry to say it, but you've got a copy-paste error here in my opinion For clarity if choice == '1': for root,dirname, files in os. Walk(directory): for file in files: if file. Endswith(".

Log") or file. Endswith(". Txt"): f=open(os.path.

Join(root, file)) for i,line in enumerate(f.readlines()): result = regex. Search(line) if result: # FIX 1 print " " print "Line: " + str(i) print "File: " + os.path. Join(root,file) print "String Type: " + result.group() print " " f.close() re.purge() if choice == '2': for root,dirname, files in os.

Walk(directory): for file in files: if file. Endswith(". Log") or file.

Endswith(". Txt"): f=open(os.path. Join(root, file)) for i,line in enumerate(f.readlines()): result = regex.

Search(re. Sub(r'\s+', '',line)) if result: # FIX 2 print " " print "Line: " + str(i) print "File: " + os.path. Join(root,file) print "String Type: " + result.group() print " " f.close().

For option one you wrote: result = regex. Search(line) if regex. Search(line): for option two you wrote: result = regex.

Search(re. Sub(r'\s+', '',line)) if regex. Search(line): If your have a result variable, then use it in your if-statement.

I'm sorry to say it, but you've got a copy-paste error here in my opinion. For clarity if choice == '1': for root,dirname, files in os. Walk(directory): for file in files: if file.

Endswith(". Log") or file. Endswith(".

Txt"): f=open(os.path. Join(root, file)) for i,line in enumerate(f.readlines()): result = regex. Search(line) if result: # FIX 1 print " " print "Line: " + str(i) print "File: " + os.path.

Join(root,file) print "String Type: " + result.group() print " " f.close() re.purge() if choice == '2': for root,dirname, files in os. Walk(directory): for file in files: if file. Endswith(".

Log") or file. Endswith(". Txt"): f=open(os.path.

Join(root, file)) for i,line in enumerate(f.readlines()): result = regex. Search(re. Sub(r'\s+', '',line)) if result: # FIX 2 print " " print "Line: " + str(i) print "File: " + os.path.

Join(root,file) print "String Type: " + result.group() print " " f.close().

I haven't tested it myself, but I think if regex. Search(line): should be if result.

1 This site is for providing answers, not guesses. Your answer would be much better and have a better chance of being accepted if you took a few moments to verify your statements. – Bryan Oakley May 1 at 14:29.

When you do this: result = regex. Search(re. Sub(r'\s+', '',line)) if regex.

Search(line): ... ... you are stripping out whitespace from line, and the result of that is being passed to regex.search(). The result of that search is stored in result. Then you ignore the result and perform the regex.search() on the unmodified original string.Re.sub() does not modify the original line, it returns a string that is the result of the substitution.

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