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Surya Gupta
Surya Gupta

Reputation: 117

Remove all the word after a particular word

I want to remove all the words, numbers, hexadecimal numbers after a specific word ".c:"

my line is like that-

line = "Bags has a price.c:123
line = "Bags has a price.c:543ea

I have tried with the following:

d = re.sub(r'[.c:\W+]', '', c)

But it not giving right answer, the output will be like:

output: Bags has a price

Upvotes: 3

Views: 1300

Answers (4)

monkut
monkut

Reputation: 43832

And just using a simple index lookup.

>>> line = "Bags has a price.c:543ea"
>>> after_word = ".c"
>>> cleaned_line = line[:line.index(after_word) + len(after_word) ]
>>> cleaned_line
Bags has a price.c

To exclude .c just remove the + len(after_word)

Upvotes: 0

paulgrav
paulgrav

Reputation: 624

If you have to use a regex — and clearly you don’t. You could have done this:

re.sub(r'\.c:.*?$','', line)

If you can avoid the regex, then do. It’ll likely be much slower that using split.

Upvotes: 0

avasal
avasal

Reputation: 14854

>>> line = "Bags has a price.c:123"
>>> line.split(':')[0]
'Bags has a price.c'
>>> line.split('.c')[0]
'Bags has a price'

Upvotes: 5

user2665694
user2665694

Reputation: 

>>> line = "Bags has a price.c:123"
>>> ''.join(line.partition('.c')[:2])
'Bags has a price.c'

Upvotes: 2

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