Starts With And Ends With Metacharacters In Regular Expression In Python

import re


start_with_pattern = "^\d"
end_with_pattern = "\d$"

text1 = r"my phone number is 12345"
text2 = r"12345 is my phone number"

print("Compare starts with pattern")
print("text1 compared with starts with:", re.search(start_with_pattern, text1))
print("text2 compared with starts with:", re.search(start_with_pattern, text2))

print("************************************")
print("Compare ends with pattern")
print("text1 compared with ends with:", re.search(end_with_pattern, text1))
print("text2 compared with ends with:", re.search(end_with_pattern, text2))

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