goalie.is_matching_regex

goalie.is_matching_regex(x: object, pattern: str) → bool

Check whether the string matches a regex pattern.

Parameters:

• x (object) – Value to check.

• pattern (str) – Regular expression pattern.

Returns:

True if x is a string and matches pattern.

Return type:

bool

Examples

>>> is_matching_regex("foobar", "^f")
True
>>> is_matching_regex("foobar", "^b")
False