Hi and thank you for your time.
I have the following example string: "Hola Luis," but the string template will always be "Hola {{name}},".
How would the regex be to match any name? You can assume the name will follow a blank space and "Hola" before that and it will have a comma right after it.
Thank you!
You can use the following regular expression, assuming that as you mention, the format is always the same:
import re
s = "Hola Luis,"
re.search('Hola (\w+),', s).group(1)
# 'Luis'
s = 'Hola test'
re.match(r'Hola (\w+)', s).groups()[0]
results:
'test'
'Hola (\w+)' to `'Hola (\w+),' as mention by OP, STRUCTURe thereContinuing from @yatu,
Without regex:
print("Hola Luis,".split(" ")[1].strip(","))
Explanation:
split(" ") # to split the string with spaces
[1] # to get the forthcoming part
strip(",") # to strip off any ','
OUTPUT:
Luis
According to Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names and your requirements, I'll use the following regex: (?<=Hola )[^,]+(?=,).
