How to remove right side elements of a string with regex in python?

Question

I am new to regex and python.

My patterns are

'Contact: Order Procesing'
'Contact: [email protected]'
'Contact: Opr & Packaging Supply'
'Contact: JOE (continued)'
'Contact: BOB/LORA/JACKIE'
'Contact: Ben - FTTC CER (continued)'

now I need to find the pattern to match contact and remove the entire string with a blank space.

re.findall(r"Contact:",text)

matches text with Contact. The problem is I do not know how to remove the Contact and right part of the Contact.

Is there any most efficient pythonic way to do this

print(re.sub(r"^Contact:.*", "", str))?

Rakesh
– Rakesh

2019-06-11 07:12:05 +00:00
Commented Jun 11, 2019 at 7:12 — Rakesh
– Rakesh, Commented Jun 11, 2019 at 7:12
you can also do str.replace("Contact: ","")

Devesh Kumar Singh
– Devesh Kumar Singh

2019-06-11 07:18:03 +00:00
Commented Jun 11, 2019 at 7:18 — Devesh Kumar Singh
– Devesh Kumar Singh, Commented Jun 11, 2019 at 7:18

Rakesh · Accepted Answer · 2019-06-11 07:12:44Z

1

Use re.sub

Ex:

import re

d = ['Contact: Order Procesing', 'Contact: [email protected]', 'Contact: Opr & Packaging Supply', 'Contact: JOE (continued)', 'Contact: BOB/LORA/JACKIE', 'Contact: Ben - FTTC CER (continued)']

for i in d:
    print(re.sub(r"^Contact:.*", "", i))

answered Jun 11, 2019 at 7:12

Rakesh

82.9k17 gold badges85 silver badges122 bronze badges

Sign up to request clarification or add additional context in comments.

Comments

alex romanoff · Accepted Answer · 2023-10-12 07:33:22Z

0

If all strings of your list started with the substring 'Contact: ', use this code:

new_list = [string[10:] for string in old_list]

answered Oct 12, 2023 at 7:33

alex romanoff

711 silver badge2 bronze badges

Collectives™ on Stack Overflow

How to remove right side elements of a string with regex in python?

2 Answers 2

Comments

Comments

Your Answer

Hot Network Questions

Collectives™ on Stack Overflow

2 Answers 2

Comments

Comments

Your Answer

Sign up or log in

Post as a guest

Related