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sshah98
sshah98

Reputation: 352

Split into list of lists by string with commas and semicolons Python

I have a string input like this:

1,2000,5,1;1,2050,5,2;2,3000,10,3

How can I split it into a list of lists like this:

[ [1, 2000, 5, 1], [1, 2050, 5, 2], [2, 3000, 10, 3], ...]

I tried regex but kept getting confused between both commas and semicolons.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1815

Answers (1)

DYZ
DYZ

Reputation: 57033

Just do exactly as you said: split by semicolons and then by commas.

s = "1,2000,5,1;1,2050,5,2;2,3000,10,3"
[x.split(',') for x in s.split(';')]
#[['1', '2000', '5', '1'], ['1', '2050', '5', '2'], ['2', '3000', '10', '3']]

If you further want lists of numbers, convert the strings to numbers:

[list(map(int, x.split(','))) for x in s.split(';')]
#[[1, 2000, 5, 1], [1, 2050, 5, 2], [2, 3000, 10, 3]]

Upvotes: 4

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