How to get the list of replacement strings from a regex?

by tressie.damore , in category: Third Party Scripts , 3 days ago

How to get the list of replacement strings from a regex?

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by jerad , 2 days ago

@tressie.damore 

To get a list of replacement strings from a regex, you can use the re module in Python. Here is an example code snippet that demonstrates how to do this:

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import re

# Define the regular expression pattern
pattern = r'd+'

# Define the input string
input_string = 'I have 10 apples and 20 oranges'

# Find all matches of the pattern in the input string
matches = re.findall(pattern, input_string)

# Define a list of replacement strings
replacement_strings = ['one', 'two', 'three', 'four', 'five', 'six', 'seven', 'eight', 'nine', 'ten']

# Replace each match with a corresponding replacement string
replaced_string = re.sub(pattern, lambda m: replacement_strings[int(m.group(0))-1], input_string)

print(matches)  # Output: ['10', '20']
print(replaced_string)  # Output: 'I have ten apples and twenty oranges'


In this example, we defined a regular expression pattern that matches one or more digits (d+) and specified an input string that contains numbers. We then used re.findall to find all matches of the pattern in the input string. We also defined a list of replacement strings to be used for each match and used re.sub to replace each match with the corresponding replacement string. Finally, we printed the list of matches and the replaced string.