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SimpleGuy_
SimpleGuy_

Reputation: 453

Python String Editing

My Initial String consists of <span> and some contents in between and a </span></span , I would like to remove that piece(including span and contents inside it and /span) from my string , what should I do ?

Part of String that need to be Removed : "<span class="_5mfr"><span class="_6qdm" style='height: 16px; width: 16px; font-size: 16px; background-image: url("https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/t81/1/16/")+14 variable strings+</span></span

I would like to remove that whole piece mentioned above

Upvotes: 1

Views: 164

Answers (3)

Navaneeth Sen
Navaneeth Sen

Reputation: 6486

You can replace everything found by the regex as shown below:

import re

regex = r"(<span.+?>)|(<\/span>)"

test_str = "<span class=\\\"_5mfr\\\"><span class=\\\"_6qdm\\\" style='height: 16px; width: 16px; font-size: 16px; background-image: url(\\\"static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/t81/1/16/…\\\")'>© Dasamoolam Damu (Troll Malayalam)ഹൗ ക്രൂവൽ<span class=\\\"_5mfr\\\"><span class=\\\"_6qdm\\\" style='height: 16px; width: 16px; font-size: 16px; background-image: url(\\\"static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/td7/1/16/…\\\")'></span></span></span></span>"

print(re.sub(regex, '', test_str))

Upvotes: 0

Алексей Р
Алексей Р

Reputation: 7627

import re

txt = 'Iam a good boy <span>some blahblahblah </span</span and my name is john'
print(re.sub(r'<span>.*</span</span ', '', txt))

Prints:

Iam a good boy and my name is john

to the updated question

import re

txt = """<span class="_5mfr"><span class="_6qdm" style='height: 16px; width: 16px; font-size: 16px; background-image: url("https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/t81/1/16/")+14 variable strings+</span></span"""
print(re.sub(r'<span [^<>]*?</span>?</span', '', txt))
# prints: <span class="_5mfr">

Upvotes: 2

U13-Forward
U13-Forward

Reputation: 71610

Use BeautifulSoup:

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
soup = BeautifulSoup(string, 'html.parser')
for x in soup.findAll('span'):
    x.replace_with('')
print(soup.string)

Upvotes: 1

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