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kyct
kyct

Reputation: 815

Trying to split string with regex

I'm trying to split a string in Python using a regex pattern but its not working correctly.

Example text:

"The quick {brown fox} jumped over the {lazy} dog"

Code:

"The quick {brown fox} jumped over the {lazy} dog".split(r'({.*?}))

I'm using a capture group so that the split delimiters are retained in the array.

Desired result:

['The quick', '{brown fox}', 'jumped over the', '{lazy}', 'dog']

Actual result:

['The quick {brown fox} jumped over the {lazy} dog']

As you can see there is clearly not a match as it doesn't split the string. Can anyone let me know where I'm going wrong? Thanks.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 46

Answers (1)

Francisco
Francisco

Reputation: 11476

You're calling the strings' split method, not re's

>>> re.split(r'({.*?})', "The quick {brown fox} jumped over the {lazy} dog")
['The quick ', '{brown fox}', ' jumped over the ', '{lazy}', ' dog']

Upvotes: 1

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