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Julian Ascencio
Julian Ascencio

Reputation: 31

How to use raw_input with regular expressions?

with raw_input() I need to enter '\t' to split one string. '\t' is regular expression. When provided through raw_input() python transforms \t to '\\t', so I cannot split the string.

line = '01/09/2015\t02:00\t0\t0\t0\t0\t0\t0\t1150592'

INPUT_separator = raw_input("- Separating character = ")

x = pd.DataFrame(line.split(INPUT_separator )).transpose()

Upvotes: 2

Views: 413

Answers (2)

gaganso
gaganso

Reputation: 3011

\t is not interpreted as a tab by raw_input() hence decoding it would be necessary. But re treats the literal \t as a tab. Hence you can also use re for this.

import re

line = '01/09/2015      02:00   0       0       0       0       0       0       1150592'
INPUT_separator = raw_input("- Separating character = ")
print re.split(INPUT_separator,line)

Upvotes: 1

Håken Lid
Håken Lid

Reputation: 23064

If you want to use the input \t as a literal tab, you have to decode the escaped string input.

INPUT_separator = raw_input('Separating character = ').decode('string_escape')

Upvotes: 0

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