Question

How to split a string with multiple delimiters in Python

Answer 1

import re

s = "Python is; an interpreted, high-level general-purpose; programming language"

print(re.split(';|,|-', s))

     
     
     
'''
run:
     
['Python is', ' an interpreted', ' high', 'level general', 'purpose', ' programming language']

'''

 

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Answer 2

import re

s = "Python is; interpreted, high-level general-purpose; programming language"

print(re.split('\W+', s))

     
     
     
'''
run:
     
['Python', 'is', 'interpreted', 'high', 'level', 'general', 'purpose', 'programming', 'language']

'''

 

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Answer 3

s = "Python is; interpreted, high-level general-purpose; programming language"

s = s.replace("; ", ", ").replace("-", ", ")

print(s.split(", "))

     
     
     
'''
run:
     
['Python is', 'interpreted', 'high', 'level general', 'purpose', 'programming language']

'''

 

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Answer 4

import re
 
s = "python,java:c#*php;c++"
 
lst = re.split(';|,|:|\*| ', s)
 
print(lst)
 
for item in lst:
    print(item)
 
 
'''
run:
 
['python', 'java', 'c#', 'php', 'c++']
python
java
c#
php
c++
 
'''

 

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