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gharz
gharz

Reputation: 13

Delete characters in a string Python

orig_string = "\\\\file_foo\\bar\\text-to-be-deleted\\foo-bar.pdf"

The original string needs to be modified (copy into a new variable) to look like the new_string below. The file has thousands of lines with the same format (file path of a pdf file).

new_string = "\\\\file_foo\\bar\\foo-bar.pdf"

How do I modify the orig_string to look like the new string?

Edit: Sorry, I forgot to mention on my original post. The '\text-to-be-deleted' is not the same. All filepath have different '\text-to-be-deleted' string.

Ex.

"\\\\file_foo\\bar\\path100\\foo-bar.pdf"
"\\\\file_foo\\bar\\path-sample\\foo-bar.pdf"
"\\\\file_foo\\bar\\another-text-be-deleted\\foo-bar.pdf"

... and so on.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1059

Answers (4)

Vimiix
Vimiix

Reputation: 16

I have a method. Hope it can help you.

orig_string = "\\\\file_foo\\bar\\text-to-be-deleted\\foo-bar.pdf"
back_index = orig_string.rfind('\\')
front_index = orig_string[:back_index].rfind('\\')
new_string = orig_string[:front_index] + orig_string[back_index:]
print(new_string)

Output

'\\\\file_foo\\bar\\foo-bar.pdf'

Upvotes: 0

Antoine Zambelli
Antoine Zambelli

Reputation: 764

If you know what the text-to-be-deleted is, then you can use

new_string = orig_string.replace('text-to-be-deleted\\','')

If you only know the parts you want to keep, I would use str.split() with the parts you know as arguments.

EDIT (split version): I'd do this, but there might be cleaner out there:

orig_string = "\\\\file_foo\\bar\\text-to-be-deleted\\foo-bar.pdf"

temp_str = orig_string.split('\\')
idx = temp_str.index('bar')

new_string = temp_str[:idx+1] + temp_str[idx+2:]
new_string = '\\'.join(new_string)
print(new_string)#\\file_foo\bar\foo-bar.pdf

Upvotes: 1

Pranay Pujari
Pranay Pujari

Reputation: 35

use the following code:

orig_string = "\\\\file_foo\\bar\\text-to-be-deleted\\foo-bar.pdf"
new_string = orig_string
start = new_string.find("bar\\")
start = start + 4 # so the start points to char next to bar\\
end = new_string.find("\\foo")
temp = new_string[start:end] # this the text to be deleted
new_string = new_string.replace(temp , "") #this is the required final string

output:

\\file_foo\bar\\foo-bar.pdf

Upvotes: 1

sachin dubey
sachin dubey

Reputation: 779

I am considering you want to remove 2nd last element of every path

orig_string = "\\\\file_foo\\bar\\text-to-be-deleted\\foo-bar.pdf"
orig_string = orig_string.split("\\")
value = orig_string[:-1]
str1 = orig_string[-1]
value[-1] = str1
value[0] = "\\"#Insert "\\" at index 0
value[1] = "\\"#Insert "\\" at index 1
print('\\'.join(value))#join the list

Output

\\\\file_foo\bar\foo-bar.pdf

Upvotes: 1

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