How to delete a word in a column using regex?

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by dedrick , in category: Third Party Scripts , 14 days ago

How to delete a word in a column using regex?

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by edmond_brakus , 13 days ago

@dedrick 

To delete a word in a column using regex, you can use the sub function in Python's re module. Here's an example code snippet that demonstrates how to delete a word in a column using regex:

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import re

# Sample data
data = ['Hello world', 'Python programming', 'Regex is powerful']

# Word to delete
word_to_delete = 'world'

# Regex pattern to match the word to delete in the column
regex_pattern = r'{}'.format(re.escape(word_to_delete))

# Loop through the data and delete the word in each column
for i in range(len(data)):
    data[i] = re.sub(regex_pattern, '', data[i])

# Print the updated data
for row in data:
    print(row)


In this code snippet, we define a list data containing the column values. We specify the word to delete using the word_to_delete variable. We construct a regex pattern using  word boundaries to match the word to delete exactly and use the re.sub function to replace the matched word with an empty string in each column. Finally, we iterate through the updated data and print the results.


You can modify the word_to_delete variable and the regex_pattern to suit your specific requirements for deleting a word in a column using regex.