Reference no: EM132361122

The string to search for the regular expression occurrence (This is provided to the student) search_string="'This is a string to search for a regular expression like regular expression or regular-expression or regular:expression or regular&expression"'

Write a regular expression that will find all occurrances of:

a. regular expression

b. regular-expression

c. regular:expression

d. regular&expression

in search_string

:22 Assign the regular expression to a variable named pattern pattern="regular[ -:&]expression"

#The string to use for subsitution (This is provided to the student) substitution="regular expression"

:23 Using the sub() method from the re package substitute all occurrences of the 'pattern' with 'substitution'

:24 Assign the outcome of the sub() method to a variable called replace_result replace_results = re.sub(pattern, substitution, search_string)

#5. Output to the console replace_results print(replace_results)