Python Regex: How To Split a String On Multiple Characters

Python Regex: How To Split a String On Multiple Characters

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This video shows how to split a string of text based on multiple characters at the same time using the regular expressions package in Python. Splitting strings into parts, often into different words, is a common text processing operation but the base Python split function only splits on a single separator, so if your words are separated by several characters it might not get you what you need. The re.split() function allows you to split on a regular expression pattern, so you can split on multiple characters at the same time.

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Code used in this Python Code Clip:

import re

lines = '''Some-files_have+different.characters as|separators'''

# Default python split works on a single character
lines.split()

# Use re.split() to split on several different characters
re.split(pattern = r"[-_\|\.\+ ]",
string = lines)


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