Split string using regex in python

Question

I'm trying to split the string in to two strings

 INPUT: "ASSO|ASSOCS|AS|ASSOCIATES/ASSOC/"

OUTPUT: "ASSO|ASSOCS|AS|ASSOCIATES","ASSOC"

Tried : I tried removing the the last character "/" first and replaced the other with ",". Wanted to know can we do this both steps in once using regex

str=str.replace(/\/$/, "")
str=str.replace(\/,",")

You can simply use filter(None, str.split('/'))

Selcuk
– Selcuk

2018-05-02 13:11:46 +00:00
Commented May 2, 2018 at 13:11 — Selcuk
– Selcuk, Commented May 2, 2018 at 13:11
print(",".join(filter(None, INPUT.split('/'))))

Rakesh
– Rakesh

2018-05-02 13:15:10 +00:00
Commented May 2, 2018 at 13:15 — Rakesh
– Rakesh, Commented May 2, 2018 at 13:15
Or re.findall(r"[^/]+", s)

tobias_k
– tobias_k

2018-05-02 13:17:45 +00:00
Commented May 2, 2018 at 13:17 — tobias_k
– tobias_k, Commented May 2, 2018 at 13:17
are you perhaps looking for re.finditer("(.+?)/", INPUT)?

Aaron
– Aaron

2018-05-02 13:20:16 +00:00
Commented May 2, 2018 at 13:20 — Aaron
– Aaron, Commented May 2, 2018 at 13:20

bphi · Accepted Answer · 2018-05-02 13:21:28Z

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If you are "trying to split the string in to two strings", then you could do

s = "ASSO|ASSOCS|AS|ASSOCIATES/ASSOC/"
s1, s2, _ = s.split('/')

answered May 2, 2018 at 13:21

bphi

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Aaron Over a year ago

This is generally a better option than regex. I would personally assign the output to a list however rather than using argument unpacking. If the list returned from string.split() is too short, you'll get an error.

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