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1. Regular expression: replace the suffix of a string ending in '.js' but not 'min.js'    stackoverflow.com

Assume infile is a variable holding the name of an input file, and similarly outfile for output file. If infile ends in .js, I'd like to replace with .min.js and ...

2. Regex replace (in Python) - a more simple way?    stackoverflow.com

Any time I want to replace a piece of text that is part of a larger piece of text, I always have to do something like:

"(?P<start>some_pattern)(?P<replace>foo)(?P<end>end)"

3. How do I replace all punctuation in my string with "" in Python?    stackoverflow.com

If my string was:

Business -- way's

Business  ways

4. Regular expression to replace with XML node    stackoverflow.com

I'm using Python to write a regular expression for replacing parts of the string with a XML node. The source string looks like:

Hello
REPLACE(str1) this is to replace
REPLACE(str2) this is to replace

5. Mass string replace in python?    stackoverflow.com

Say I have a string that looks like this:

str = "The &yquick &cbrown &bfox &Yjumps over the &ulazy dog"

6. How to replace by regular expression to lowercase in python    stackoverflow.com

I want to search key words (keys would be dynamic) and replace them in a certain format. For example: these data

keys = ["cat", "dog", "mouse"]
text = "Cat dog cat cloud miracle DOG ...

7. How to replace only part of the match with python re.sub    stackoverflow.com

I need to match two cases by one reg expression and do replacement 'long.file.name.jpg' -> 'long.file.name_suff.jpg' 'long.file.name_a.jpg' -> 'long.file.name_suff.jpg' I'm trying to do the following

re.sub('(\_a)?\.[^\.]*$' , '_suff.',"long.file.name.jpg")

8. Replace ",**" with a linebreak using RegEx (or something else)    stackoverflow.com

I'm getting started with RegEx and I was wondering if anyone could help me craft a statement to convert coordinates as follows:

145.00694,-37.80421,9 145.00686,-37.80382,9 145.00595,-37.8035,16 145.00586,-37.80301,16

145.00694,-37.80421
145.00686,-37.80382
145.00595,-37.8035 
145.00586,-37.80301

9. Python Case Insensitive Replace without hurting re cache    stackoverflow.com

related question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/919056/python-case-insensitive-replace What's the best way to do a case insensitive replace WITHOUT HURTING THE CACHE in the re module? I'm monitoring carefully the cache to make sure my favorite ...

10. python regex match and replace    stackoverflow.com

I need to find, process and remove (one by one) any substrings that match a rather long regex:

# p is a compiled regex
# s is a string  
while 1:
  ...

11. python: replacing regex with BNF or pyparsing    stackoverflow.com

I am parsing a relatively simple text, where each line describes a game unit. I have little knowledge of parsing techniques, so I used the following ad hoc solution:

class Unit:
  ...

12. Python: Replace with regex    stackoverflow.com

I need to replace part of a string. I was looking through the Python documentation and found re.sub.

import re
s = '<textarea id="Foo"></textarea>'
output = re.sub(r'<textarea.*>(.*)</textarea>', 'Bar', s)
print output

>>>'Bar'

13. How to use Python re module to replace \n with nothing in a single file    stackoverflow.com

Regards to all. I'm developing a Image compression system using Python Image Library. The basic workflow is:

• Read all images of a certain directory with : find /opt/images -name *.jpg > /opt/rs/images.txt
• Read this ...

14. Multiline regex replace    stackoverflow.com

I want to transform a text like:

$$
foo
bar
$$

<% tex
foo
bar
%>

re.sub(r"\$(.*)\$", r"<% tex \1 %>", text)

15. what is the right regex for this?    stackoverflow.com

what is the regex for such a task? --> replace "[[...:" with "[[" That is to say, I want to replace *some text * inside [[...: with [[. The problem with my code ...

16. python regular expression replacing part of a matched string    stackoverflow.com

i got an string that might look like this

"myFunc('element','node','elementVersion','ext',12,0,0)"

myFunc\((.+?)\,(.+?)\,(.+?)\,(.+?)\,(.+?)\,(.+?)\,(.+?)\)

17. Replace first occurence of string    stackoverflow.com

I have some sample string. How can I replace first occurence of this string in longer string with empty sign ? Tried this but it's not working as far as I ...

18. how to replace regular expression based on the match results (e.g. a special function)?    stackoverflow.com

i have a search expression with 1-2 groups. i need to substitute each result with something that depends on the result value. e.g. in the following string, replace each matched digit with it's ...

19. Regex Replace [*]    stackoverflow.com

I have a string as follows:

something.something[0].somethingelse[21].blah

something.something.somethingelse.blah

20. How to replace pairs of tokens in a string?    stackoverflow.com

New to python, competent in a few languages, but can't see a 'snazzy' way of doing the following. I'm sure it's screaming out for a regex, but any solution I can ...

21. Replacing all but specific elements using regex in Python    stackoverflow.com

Using regular expressions in Python, I am trying to remove all XML-type elements in a string, except those containing QUOTE, eg <QUOTE>, </QUOTE> or <QUOTE A="B"> should remain, but others such ...

22. How to input a regex in string.replace in python?    stackoverflow.com

I need some help on declaring some regex. my inputs as as such

this is a paragraph with<[1> in between</[1> and then there are cases ... where the<[99> number ranges from 1-100</[99>. ...

23. Python: string.replace vs re.sub    stackoverflow.com

For python 2.5, 2.6, should I be using string.replace or re.sub for basic text replacements. In PHP, this was explicitly stated but I can't find a similar note for python.

24. Newbie python - replace in an array    stackoverflow.com

In a file, I have the following lines

NetConn_msa[0].time=0.0

NetConn_msa[1].time=0.0 etc for 60 elements. 

25. Regex to replace %variables%    stackoverflow.com

I've been yanking clumps of hair out for 30 minutes doing this one... I have a dictionary, like so:

{'search': 'replace',
 'foo':    'bar'}

Foo bar %foo% % ...

26. Replace 'nnn0n' with 'nnn1n' in Python using regular expressions    stackoverflow.com

I would like to replace a string in form 'nnn0n' with the string in form 'nnn1n' where n is any digit. What the easiest way to do that? So, far I ...

27. replace all "\" with "\\" python    stackoverflow.com

Does anyone know how replace all \ with \\ in python? Ive tried:

re.sub('\','\\',string)

28. re.sub(...) replacing leftmost occurrences?    stackoverflow.com

$ pydoc re.sub :

sub(pattern, repl, string, count=0, flags=0)
    Return the string obtained by replacing the leftmost
    non-overlapping occurrences of the pattern in string by the
 ...

29. Python regex replace to create smiley faces    stackoverflow.com

I'd like to create a regex string that would turn this text:

Hello this is a mighty fine day today

8===D 8==D 8D D 8====D 8==D 8=D 8===D

30. Replace Ctr+H copy row and change it     stackoverflow.com

I need some help. I have many rows in my text file with this :

invoke glVertex3f,-0.352848,0.081168,-0.123057

31. How to replace all occurrences of X between Y's?    stackoverflow.com

I'm not sure if this problem solvable with regular expressions (in Perl5 syntax), but here is self-explanatory example:

smth Y1 test X foo X Y2 bar X Y1 X X Y2
s/?/Z/g
smth Y1 ...

32. RegEx replace in Python    stackoverflow.com

I'm pretty new to regular expressions. I've worked out the string (?i)\$url\[([0-9])\] to match what I'm looking for. I want a string like "this is $url[2] a string" to be passed ...

33. python regex for string replacement    stackoverflow.com

I want to replace parts of a string that contains the following words "$%word$%" I want to replace it with the value of a dictionary with the corresponding key equal to word. In ...

34. Python regex: how to replace each instance of an occurrence with a different value?    stackoverflow.com

Suppose I have this string: s = "blah blah blah" Using Python regex, how can I replace each instance of "blah" with a different value (e.g. I have a list of values v ...

35. how to replace uppercase with underscore?    stackoverflow.com

I'm new to Python and I am trying to replace all uppercase-letters within a word to underscores, for example:

ThisIsAGoodExample

this_is_a_good_example

36. How do I replace commas in a string    stackoverflow.com

I want to remove all commas from a string using regular expressions, I want letters, periods and numbers to remain just commas

37. Regex replacement    stackoverflow.com

I have a string like this one:

{{foobar
| option1 = foo
| option2 = foo
| <!-- more options -->
| something = xxx
| thisoption = xxx
| <!-- more options -->
}}

38. python regular expression replace    stackoverflow.com

I'm trying to change a string that contains substrings such as

the</span></p>
<p><span class=font7>currency

the currency

39. Implement python replace() function without using regexp    stackoverflow.com

I'm trying to rewrite the equivalent of the python replace() function without using regexp. Using this code, i've managed to get it to work with single chars, but not with more ...

40. Python Regex replace    stackoverflow.com

Hey I'm trying to figure out a regular expression to do the following. Here is my string

Place,08/09/2010,"15,531","2,909",650

41. Regex for replacing missing value period    bytes.com

Thanks all for your help. I must say that it makes sense to just use the built-in split-to-list feature of strings and check each element. It seems pretty safe. However, it takes a long time to process a large dataset and check each value to see if it is a period, in this case the census numbers for the state of ...

42. How to replace an attribute with empty string using regex?    bytes.com