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Bhaskar Bhuyan
Bhaskar Bhuyan

Reputation: 581

Regular Expression Python Trace back

I have a string something like this:

opt/custom/building/BuildingInput/address/BuildingUnderwritingInput/Name

I need to catch all the words having 'Input' and delete them from the path. So my final string will be:

opt/custom/building/address/Name

I tried something like this but it didnt work

x = "opt/custom/building/BuildingInput/address/BuildingUnderwritingInput/Name"
re.sub(r'Input/', r'/' , x.rstrip())

And it gave me

opt/custom/building/Building/address/BuildingUnderwriting/Name

The "Building" of "BuildingInput" and "BuildingUnderwriting" of "BuildingUnderwritingInput" are retained here. I want the whole word 'BuildingInput" and "BuildingUnderwritingInput" to be omitted. Any help? Or if anyone can tell me how I can backtrace from occurrence of "Input" to the first occurrence of "/" so that I can match the whole word "BuildingInput" and "BuildingUnderwritingInput"

Upvotes: 0

Views: 280

Answers (3)

degant
degant

Reputation: 4981

Use this regex to remove all words ending with Input within slashes (/):

(/)[^/]+Input(?=/)

For your case:

x = "opt/custom/building/BuildingInput/address/BuildingUnderwritingInput/Name"
re.sub(r'(/)[^/]+Input(?=/)', r'' , x.rstrip())

Upvotes: 1

A Person
A Person

Reputation: 1112

Remove 0 or more chars that are not a slash ([^/]*) till after the point that Input followed by a slash appears:

import re
x = "opt/custom/building/BuildingInput/address/BuildingUnderwritingInput/Name"
print(re.sub(r'[^/]*Input/', r'' , x.rstrip()))

If it is possible that the last element of the path also contains an Input word (without a trailing slash) you can use this instead:

x = "address/BuildingUnderwritingInput"
print(re.sub(r'[^/]*Input(/|$)', r'' , x.rstrip()))

Here either / or the end of the string ($) match after Input. However this leaves one slash if the last word is matched. If this is a problem you can remove it seperately:

x = "address/BuildingUnderwritingInput"
x = re.sub(r'[^/]*Input(/|$)', r'' , x.rstrip())
print(re.sub(r'/$', r'' , x))

Upvotes: 0

Christian König
Christian König

Reputation: 3570

Currently you are only searching and replacing Input/, you have to search for the whole word, for example by using this regex:

re.sub(r'/\w*Input/', r'/' , x.rstrip())

Upvotes: 0

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