# File: regex-example-1.py

import regex

text = "Man's crisis of identity in the latter half of the 20th century"

p = regex.compile("latter") # literal
print p.match(text)
print p.search(text), repr(p.group(0))

p = regex.compile("[0-9]+") # number
print p.search(text), repr(p.group(0))

p = regex.compile("\<\w\w\>") # two-letter word
print p.search(text), repr(p.group(0))

p = regex.compile("\w+$") # word at the end
print p.search(text), repr(p.group(0))

## $ python regex-example-1.py
## -1
## 32 'latter'
## 51 '20'
## 13 'of'
## 56 'century'