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#!/usr/bin/python
import re

line = "Cats are smarter than dogs"

matchObj = re.match(r'(.*) are (.*?) .*', line, re.M | re.I)

if matchObj:
    print "matchObj.group() : ", matchObj.group()
    print "matchObj.group(1) : ", matchObj.group(1)
    print "matchObj.group(2) : ", matchObj.group(2)
else:
    print "No match!!"

print(re.search('www', 'www.runoob.com').span())
print(re.search('com', 'www.runoob.com').span())

phone = "2004-959-559"

num = re.sub(r'#.*$', "", phone)
print "phone num: ", num

num = re.sub(r'\D', "", phone)
print "phone num : ", num
