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user1595496

Reputation: 53

Regular expression to replace a character on odd repeated occurrences in Python

Can't get a regular expression to replace a character on odd repeated occurrences in Python.

Example:

char = ``...```.....``...`....`````...`

to

``...``````.....``...``....``````````...``

on even occurrences doesn't replace.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1421

Answers (3)

mgilson
mgilson

Reputation: 310089

Maybe I'm old fashioned (or my regex skills aren't up to par), but this seems to be a lot easier to read:

import re

def double_odd(regex,string):
    """
    Look for groups that match the regex.  Double every second one.
    """
    count = [0]
    def _double(match):
        count[0] += 1
        return match.group(0) if count[0]%2 == 0 else match.group(0)*2
    return re.sub(regex,_double,string)

s = "`...```.....``...`....`````...`"
print double_odd('`',s)
print double_odd('`+',s)

It seems that I might have been a little confused about what you were actually looking for. Based on the comments, this becomes even easier:

def odd_repl(match):
    """
    double a match (all of the matched text) when the length of the 
    matched text is odd
    """
    g = match.group(0)
    return g*2 if len(g)%2 == 1 else g

re.sub(regex,odd_repl,your_string)

Upvotes: 3

Ashwini Chaudhary
Ashwini Chaudhary

Reputation: 251106

This may be not as good as the regex solution, but works:

In [101]: s1=re.findall(r'`{1,}',char)

In [102]: s2=re.findall(r'\.{1,}',char)

In [103]: fill=s1[-1] if len(s1[-1])%2==0 else s1[-1]*2

In [104]: "".join("".join((x if len(x)%2==0 else x*2,y)) for x,y in zip(s1,s2))+fill

Out[104]: '``...``````.....``...``....``````````...``'

Upvotes: 0

georg
georg

Reputation: 215019

for example:

>>> import re
>>> s = "`...```.....``...`....`````...`"
>>> re.sub(r'((?<!`)(``)*`(?!`))', r'\1\1', s)
'``...``````.....``...``....``````````...``'

Upvotes: 4

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