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brazjul
brazjul

Reputation: 339

How to Preserve Whitespace (Regex)

I'm pretty new programming and I'm trying to use regex to print strings containing only letters. But I'm having one problem. I also want to preserve any whitespace. So this is what I have:

value = 'h&(()^%el!!l000o w@0or!ld'

import re

value = ''.join(re.findall('[a-zA-Z]+',value))

print value

helloworld

The output that I want is: hello world. I think part of the problem is that I'm using .join. How can I preserve the whitespace but also make sure that only letters are printing?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2619

Answers (1)

gtlambert
gtlambert

Reputation: 11961

You need to match whitespace in your regex, as well as matching letters. You can do this by adding \s to your regex as follows:

import re

value = 'h&(()^%el!!l000o w@0or!ld'
value = ''.join(re.findall('[a-zA-Z\s]+',value))
print value

Output

hello world

Upvotes: 2

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