I'm trying to make a very simple regex match ( the negation of all printable anscii characters other then '[' and ']'). When I tested my pattern in regex pal I got the matching that I wanted. Then I moved to my python unit test and my match never returns true
def testChatChars(string):
return re.match('[^\x20-\x5A\x5C\x5E-\x7E]', string) is not None
print("testing Chat validation")
print(testChatChars("") == False)
print(testChatChars("this is a valid chat message") == True)
print(testChatChars("9999abcdefghijklmnopqrxtuvxyz ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOP!@#$(^&*(&%$^^)*)!{},.;'\|?/7") == True )
print(testChatChars("this is not [ valid chat message") == False)
print(testChatChars("this is not ] valid chat message") == False)
print(testChatChars("9999abcdefghijklmnopqrxtuvxyz [][][[][]ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOP!@#$(^&*(&%$^^)*)!{}[],.;'\|?/7ونِكود碼標準萬國") == False)
Which is returning
False //should be true
False //should be true
False //should be true
True
True
True
re.match is always returning none for some reason.
UPDATE: tried to change my code in the suggested fashion new output is
False
False
True
False
False
False