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Alan003
Alan003

Reputation: 79

Adding hyphen between words in a list

I have a list of values which looks like:

['Carter Copeland Melius Research LLC - Founding Partner, President and Research Analyst of Aerospace & Defense\n', 'Gregory D. Smith The Boeing Company - CFO and Executive VP of Enterprise Operations, Finance & Strategy\n', 'Maurita B. Sutedja The Boeing Company - VP of IR\n']

I want to add a hyphen after the name and this should look like:

['Carter Copeland - Melius Research LLC - Founding Partner, President and Research Analyst of Aerospace & Defense\n', 'Gregory D. Smith - The Boeing Company - CFO and Executive VP of Enterprise Operations, Finance & Strategy\n', 'Maurita B. Sutedja - The Boeing Company - VP of IR\n']

So the logic is that if there is a "." after the second word then the hyphen will be at the end of the third word or else the hyphen would be after the second word.

How do i do this?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 86

Answers (3)

campy
campy

Reputation: 86

I did not fully understand the second type of sentence but i think this is waht you mean.

def add_hyphen(string):
    words = string.split(" ")
    if words[1][-1]==".":
        words.insert(3, '-')
    else:
        words.insert(2, '-')
    return ' '.join(words)

txt = ['Carter Copeland Melius Research LLC - Founding Partner, President and Research Analyst of Aerospace & Defense\n', 'Gregory D. Smith The Boeing Company - CFO and Executive VP of Enterprise Operations, Finance & Strategy\n', 'Maurita B. Sutedja The Boeing Company - VP of IR\n']


for k,string in enumerate(txt):
txt[k] = add_hyphen(txt[k])

print(new_txt)
['Carter Melius - Research LLC - Founding Partner, President and Research Analyst of Aerospace & Defense\n', 'Gregory D. Smith - The Boeing Company - CFO and Executive VP of Enterprise Operations, Finance & Strategy\n', 'Maurita B. Sutedja - The Boeing Company - VP of IR\n']

Upvotes: 2

rafalou38
rafalou38

Reputation: 602

Here is a quick regex I made:

(^\w* \w*([^.]|. \w*))

Replace with:

$1 -

You can try it there https://regex101.com/r/JtjMuE/1

Here is auto auto generated code:

# coding=utf8
# the above tag defines encoding for this document and is for Python 2.x compatibility

import re

regex = r"(^\w* \w*([^.]|. \w*))"

test_str = ("Carter Copeland Melius Research LLC - Founding Partner, President and Research Analyst of Aerospace & Defense\n"
    "Gregory D. Smith The Boeing Company - CFO and Executive VP of Enterprise Operations, Finance & Strategy\\n")

subst = "$1 - "

# You can manually specify the number of replacements by changing the 4th argument
result = re.sub(regex, subst, test_str, 0, re.MULTILINE)

if result:
    print (result)

# Note: for Python 2.7 compatibility, use ur"" to prefix the regex and u"" to prefix the test string and substitution.

Upvotes: 0

Stefan Glasenhardt
Stefan Glasenhardt

Reputation: 91

names = ['Carter Copeland Melius Research LLC - Founding Partner, President and Research Analyst of Aerospace & Defense',
             'Gregory D. Smith The Boeing Company - CFO and Executive VP of Enterprise Operations, Finance & Strategy',
             'Maurita B. Sutedja The Boeing Company - VP of IR']

for index, name in enumerate(names):
    splitted = name.split(" ")
    if "." in splitted[1]:
        splitted.insert(3, "-")
    else:
        splitted.insert(2, "-")

    names[index] = " ".join(splitted)

print(names)

This should do the trick. But it only works when all names are following your mentioned schema.

Upvotes: 2

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