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Check how many characters in input

I'm working on a Python script for school and I need it to check the input format in order to perform an action.

Let me exemplify:

The script will ask the user for an input that can either be an id number or a registration number, then, if it's an ID number, it will query a specific database for something, and if it's a registration number, it will query a different database for something else.

The ID number format is: XXX.XXX.XXX-XX and the registration number format is: XX.XXX.XXX/XXXX-XX.

Any ideas?

[EDIT]

Ok, so I just realized I don't necessarily need to check if the format is correct, since the registration number has more characters than the ID number. Now, how can I have an if statement check the amount of characters in an input?

Solution

  • So I ended up using the following:

    if len(cliente) == 14:
    print "ID"


elif len(cliente) == 18:
    print "Registration"

else:
    print "You entered an incorrect option"

    Which worked quite well for what I needed. Thanks :D