How to use Regular Expression with FlashText

[BluePanda-io]

This is probably an easy question that is already been answered but unfortunately, I can't figure this out or find someone that did already.

How can I use FlashText for Regex patterns?

Something that comes to mind a possible ways but doesn't work is:

from flashtext import KeywordProcessor
keyword_processor = KeywordProcessor()
keyword_processor.add_keyword('Big')
keyword_processor.add_keyword(r'\d{5}')
keywords_found = keyword_processor.extract_keywords('I love big Appsle 23234 ands Bay Area. 12345', span_info=True)
print(keywords_found)

As a result, we will have "big" and the corresponding position and "23234, 12345" and the corresponding position

Thank you for taking the time to answer me and excited to use your great library

[thakur-nandan]

Hi @milts10 ,

Unfortunately flashtext cannot handle regex patterns. You should use the regex module instead.

Kind regards, Nandan Thakur

[BluePanda-io]

Thank you so much for answering,

I am sorry for being such a newbie but what is the regex module and can I find the position of the regex using this module?

Basically, the only thing that I need is to input 2 different regexes for example and get back the position of this regex in the input text

Thank you for your time!!!!!

[JJwangbilin]

Thank you so much for answering,

I am sorry for being such a newbie but what is the regex module and can I find the position of the regex using this module?

Basically, the only thing that I need is to input 2 different regexes for example and get back the position of this regex in the input text

Thank you for your time!!!!!

@milts10 hello，I have the same question，How did you solve it?

[Littlecowherd]

@JJwangbilin Are you looking for this?