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Frederik Madsen
8,254 Pointsword length
Not sure what i'm doing wrong
import re
def find_words(count, string):
return re.findall(r'\w{count,}', string)
# EXAMPLE:
# >>> find_words(4, "dog, cat, baby, balloon, me")
# ['baby', 'balloon']
1 Answer
Jennifer Nordell
Treehouse TeacherHi there, Frederik Madsen! This is a trickier one. Specifically because you can't use count directly in the regex in that way. So you will either need to do some concatenation or interpolation to insert the value of count into the regex. You can do that by using multiple curly braces.
return re.findall(r'\w{{{},}}'.format(count), string)
Alternatively, you could use concatenation but you will have to forcibly turn the count into a string:
return re.findall(r'\w{' + str(count) +',}', string)
Hope this helps!
