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title: "Specific Pattern 1" author: "Raja CSP Raman" date: 2019-04-20 description: "-" type: technical_note draft: false source: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/56232268/extract-word-form-string-using-regex-word-boundaries-in-python

import re

fn = "DC_QnA_bo_v.15.12.3_DE_duplicates.xlsx"
rgx = re.compile('\b_[A-Z]{2}\b')
print(re.findall(rgx, fn))

[]

rgx = re.compile('(?<=_)[A-Z]+(?=_)')
print(re.findall(rgx, fn))

['DE']

Score: 5

Category: regex