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Reputation: 69

Match characters between square brackets but only if text inside brackets follows pattern

I want to match text inside of square brackets - but ONLY if it contains hashtag+digit+digit

i.e [#18] or [hello #25 bye]

NOT [25] (no hashtag)

I ultimately want to remove these match strings (including the brackets & ALL the text inside the brackets).

For example

12345 one two [#13 west] words [2025/02/25] #15 [#88]turtles [smth #25 else].

I would like it changed to:

12345 one two  words [2025/02/25] #15 turtles .

There will not be any brackets inside the (filter out) brackets, only (hashtag, A-z, 0-9 and space). I got it working for the brackets and hashtag+digit+digit, but not the optional words.

Upvotes: -1

Views: 53

Answers (1)

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Reputation: 367

You can replace \[[^]]*#\d{2}\b[^]]*\] with an empty string:

import re

print(re.sub(r"(?m)\[[^]]*#\d{2}\b[^]]*\]", '',
      "12345 one two [#13 west] words [2025/02/25] #15 [#88]turtles [smth #25 else] "))

Results

12345 one two  words [2025/02/25] #15 turtles
  • In this regex, #\d{2}\b is to make sure that we have at least one # followed by two digits.

See the details here

Upvotes: 2

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