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Jakegarbo
Jakegarbo

Reputation: 1301

Remove characters outside quotation mark python

How to remove all characters outside quotation mark for example this is my string

message = 'something "like" this'
print( removeFromQuote(message)  )


message2 = 'something "like this" thank you!'
print( removeFromQuote(message2)  )

then the result :

like

like this

how to create a function removeFromQuote that can do this.

or using re.sub with the correct regex

thank you in advance!

Upvotes: 2

Views: 852

Answers (3)

constt
constt

Reputation: 2320

You can use regular expressions:

import re


def removeFromQuote(message):
    return re.findall(r'"(.+?)"', message)

Here is the result:

>>> message = 'something "like this" or "like that"'
>>> removeFromQuote(message)
['like this', 'like that']

Upvotes: 1

U13-Forward
U13-Forward

Reputation: 71610

Try using findall:

import re
message = 'something "like this" thank you'
print(re.findall('"(\D+)"',message)[0])

Output:

like this

Upvotes: 4

kindall
kindall

Reputation: 184395

First, split the string on quotes.

message = 'something "like" this'
chunks = message.split('"')

The elements of the list that are bits of the text inside the quotes are the odd-numbered ones. So just get those.

odd_chunks = chunks[1::2]

Now join the list back together into a string.

result = "".join(odd_chunks)

Putting it all together:

def removeFromQuote(text):
    return "".join(text.split('"')[1::2])

Upvotes: 1

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