Python Anchors to validate specific characters in beginning and in the end

Question

My example text is

A 12324567#JAIEKLLIMdata B

and trying to extract string which begins with A and ends with B

my regex is

"\AA [A-Za-z0-9]\ZB"

or

"^A[A-Za-z0-9]B$"

I get a no match found when trying run this regex. Any suggestions where i am going wrong?

Answer 1

Your second regex almost works, but it only works if the string is exactly three characters long. Try

"^A[A-Za-z0-9 #]*B$"

(you also need to include # and space in the character class).