I want to split the strings and the numbers. So if the string that is concatenated would be:
Hans went to house number 10 92384 29349
It should split the text into:
Hans went to house number | 10 | 92384 | 29349
I am confused on how to tackle this as split won't work because it will also split Hans | went | to | house | number..
Pretty easy with regular expressions:
>>> import re
>>> s = "Hans went to house number 10 92384 29349"
>>> re.split(r'\s+(?=\d+\b)', s)
['Hans went to house number', '10', '92384', '29349']
That said your question is confusing, if you want to add the | char to the output, simply join the output again:
>>> ' | '.join(_)
'Hans went to house number | 10 | 92384 | 29349'
If your goal is to implement a function that does the trick, you can write this:
def split_numbers(string, join=None):
from re import split
split = re.split(r'\s+(?=\d+\b)', string)
return join.join(split) if join else split
Notice that I added the word boundary \b on my regex to avoid matching words starting with a number like the 2cups in the sentence Hans went to house number 10 92384 29349 and drank 2cups of coffee
If you just want to add | to the string, you can try this:
a="Hans went to house number 10 92384 29349"
print(" ".join("| "+i if i.isdigit() else i for i in a.split()))
Output:
Hans went to house number | 10 | 92384 | 29349
You can split your sentence into words, then try to cast the word into integer. If the cast fail, then just concat
a = "Hans went to house number 10 92384 29349"
res = ""
for word in a.split():
try:
number = int(word)
res += " | %d" % number
except ValueError:
res += " %s" % word
Edit: I tried to give the "simplest" solution. I mean, it is longer, but I guess easier to understand . Still, if you understand other solutions (1 line), go for it.
Using regular expression splitting with re:
import re
txt = 'Hans went to house number 10 92384 29349'
' | '.join(re.split('\s(?=\d)',txt))
# 'Hans went to house number | 10 | 92384 | 29349'
Here is how you could do it:
a = 'Hans went to house number 10 92384 29349'
result = [' '.join([item for item in a.split(' ') if not item.isdigit()])] + [int(item) for item in a.split(' ') if item.isdigit()]
And if you want output as you showed:
new_result = ' | '.join([str(item) for item in result])
a = 'Hans 12 went to house number 10 92384 29349'.
You can do this:
a = "Hans went to house number 10 92384 29349"
res = []
for item in a.split():
if item.isdigit():
res.extend(['|', item])
else:
res.append(item)
print(' '.join(res))
#Hans went to house number | 10 | 92384 | 29349
