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Week Quiz - 2 - Coursera

1. This document contains a 10 question quiz about regular expressions. 2. The questions cover topics like what regular expressions are, common symbols used like *, +, ?, and their meanings, and examples of regular expressions and the matches they would produce. 3. The quiz is part of a Coursera course on learning Python for network data to help students learn about extracting and parsing text data using regular expressions.

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Quiz:RegularExpressions|Coursera

Quiz: Regular Expressions


10questions

1.
Which of the following best describes "Regular Expressions"?
The way Python handles and recovers from errors that would
otherwise cause a traceback
A small programming language unto itself
A way to calculate mathematical values paying attention to
operator precedence
A way to solve Algebra formulas for the unknown value

2.
What will the '\$' regular expression match?
The beginning of a line
An empty line
A dollar sign
The end of a line
A new line at the end of a line

3.
What would the following mean in a regular expression? [a-z0-9]
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Match anything but a lowercase letter or digit


Match any text that is surrounded by square braces
Match an entire line as long as it is lowercase letters or digits
Match a lowercase letter or a digit
Match any number of lowercase letters followed by any number
of digits

4.
What is the type of the return value of the re.findall() method?
A string
An integer
A single character
A boolean
A list of strings

5.
What is the "wild card" character in a regular expression (i.e., the
character that matches any character)?
$
?
*
+
^
.
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6.
What is the difference between the "+" and "*" character in regular
expressions?
The "+" matches at least one character and the "*" matches
zero or more characters
The "+" matches upper case characters and the "*" matches
lowercase characters
The "+" matches the beginning of a line and the "*" matches the
end of a line
The "+" matches the actual plus character and the "*" matches
any character
The "+" indicates "start of extraction" and the "*" indicates the
"end of extraction"

7.
What does the "[0-9]+" match in a regular expression?
Any number of digits at the beginning of a line
One or more digits
Zero or more digits
Any mathematical expression
Several digits followed by a plus sign

8.
What does the following Python sequence print out?

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x='From:Usingthe:character'
y=re.findall('^F.+:',x)
printy

:
From:
['From:']
['From: Using the :']
^F.+:

9.
What character do you add to the "+" or "*" to indicate that the match is
to be done in a non-greedy manner?
?
\g
$
**
^
++

10.
Given the following line of text:
[email protected]:14:162008

What would the regular expression '\S+?@\S+' match?

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[email protected]
From
\@\
marquard@uct
d@u

Submit Quiz

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