Python replace all non-ASCII strings with other strings

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I have been looking around for a while to any kind of solution to my problem the only thing close is how to replace a specific line if i know the non ASCII string already but what i would like to do is a loop for every line in a txt file to find every single non ASCII string and replace it with just the word STRING

variable Name ‘ƒ variable2 Name2 ƒŠ‡

I have only found people removing all ascii and filling the blanks in between.

Lucas Ng · Accepted Answer · 2021-05-16 11:00:57Z

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Try the Python standard library re.sub:

import re
txt = "‘ƒ variable2 Name2 ƒŠ‡"
txt = re.sub(r"[^\x1F-\x7F]+", "STRING", txt)
print(txt)

Then use this method for each line in your file.

answered May 16, 2021 at 11:00

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CalibreS Over a year ago

That does work thank you , but for some reason , even though it replaces the ones i want , it replaces it twice . so it always is , variable name STRING;STRING

Lucas Ng Over a year ago

The regex will replace each block of non-ascii. If you have ascii characters in the middle of a block, it will treat it as two separate blocks

CalibreS Over a year ago

I dont know i looked evertywhere and i believe the problem to be somewhere in my code but i cant seem to find it . for line in f: line = re.sub(r"[^\x1F-\x7F]+", 'STRING', line) print(line) if 'str' in line: break

CalibreS Over a year ago

Also the txt i use is extremely simple so i dont miss anything but it always gets replaced twice var TextBoxHandle STRING;STRING var TextBoxHandle STRING;STRING var TextBoxHandle STRING;STRING var TextBoxHandle STRING;STRING var TextBoxHandle STRING;STRING besides the last one

CalibreS Over a year ago

nevermind im so stupid i just realised what i was doing wrong

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