Delete string in between special characters in python

Question

I have string something like this

mystring = "CBS Network Radio Panel;\ntitle2 New York OCT13W4, Panel Weighting;\n*options; mprint ls=max mprint;\n\n****************************************out; asd; ***hg;"

I want to delete the string between * and ; output should be

"CBS Network Radio Panel;\ntitle2 New York OCT13W4, Panel Weighting;\ mprint ls=max mprint;\n\n asd;"

I have tried this code

re.sub(r'[\*]*[a-z]*;', '', mystring)

But it's not working.

Wiktor Stribiżew · Accepted Answer · 2016-08-30 09:37:32Z

3

You may use

re.sub(r'\*[^;]*;', '', mystring)

See the Python demo:

import re
mystring = "CBS Network Radio Panel;\ntitle2 New York OCT13W4, Panel Weighting;\n*options; mprint ls=max mprint;\n\n****************************************out; asd; ***hg;"
r = re.sub(r'\*[^;]*;', '', mystring)
print(r)

Output:

CBS Network Radio Panel;
title2 New York OCT13W4, Panel Weighting;
 mprint ls=max mprint;

 asd;

The r'\*[^;]*;' pattern matches a literal *, followed with zero or more characters other than ; and then a ;.

answered Aug 30, 2016 at 9:37

Wiktor Stribiżew

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