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return list of U.S. public law numbers extracted from string
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extract_laws.py
import re
# return list of public law numbers extracted from string
def extract_laws(haystack):
p = re.compile('P\.L\.\s?\d{1,3}-\d{1,3}')
needle_list = p.findall(haystack)
return needle_list
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