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Surya Gupta
Surya Gupta

Reputation: 117

Do not consider white spaces and quotes using regular expressions

I have below string:

Values: Fail.123/urs/temp/lib.000

I need to create a regular expression which will not consider the spaces and "". And It should not be case sensitive also. If I will pass above string (Values: Fail.123/urs/temp/lib.000). it will show the below strings also:

value:Fail.123/urs/temp/lib.000 
Value:fail.123  /urs/temp/Lib.000
value:"fail.123 /urs/temp/Lib.000

Upvotes: 0

Views: 119

Answers (2)

NPE
NPE

Reputation: 500317

The following should give you the idea:

In [76]: cmpkey = lambda s:re.sub(r'[\s"]', '', s).lower()

In [77]: cmpkey('Values: Fail.123/urs/temp/lib.000') == key('values:"fail.123 /urs/temp/Lib.000')
Out[77]: True

P.S. I just noticed that in your example, "value" is used interchangeably with "values". Why is that?

Upvotes: 1

Rui Jarimba
Rui Jarimba

Reputation: 17979

The following regular expression will ignore white space and " (quotes):

[^\s"]*

PS: I tested this using .NET regular expressions but it should work for python

Upvotes: 1

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