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newdev14
newdev14

Reputation: 1111

regex help - delimiters

- Dropbox login fix
- Updated iris viewer
* other aspects are to be improved
+ fix crash on viewing update 
? Photos in notes now support copy, cut and paste - By long pressing a photo in a note, you can access the context
menu for copy, cut and paste of the photo. The photo can be pasted to any place in the text of notes.
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I need to retrieve the sentences with the delimiters (-, *, + and some others that I use below). So looking for output like: 

['Dropbox login fix', 'Updated iris viewer', 'other aspects are to be improved', 'fix crash on viewing update', Photos in notes now support copy, cut and paste - By long pressing a photo in a note, you can access the context menu for copy, cut and paste of the photo. The photo can be pasted to any place in the text of notes.']

Using a regex like: 

r = re.split(r'(?m)\s*^[-*:;+&.?]+\s*|\.$',txt)

but this also returns the last line, which I don't want. This sort of free text without delimiter may/may not be present in the text I am working with.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 58

Answers (1)

anubhava
anubhava

Reputation: 786339

Don't use split for this. Use this regex:

^\s*[-*:;+&.?]+\s*(.+)$

in re.findall() function to get all your matches.

RegEx Demo

Upvotes: 2

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