Here's the simplest way to explain this. Here's what I'm using:
re.split('\W', 'foo/bar spam\neggs')
>>> ['foo', 'bar', 'spam', 'eggs']
Here's what I want:
someMethod('\W', 'foo/bar spam\neggs')
>>> ['foo', '/', 'bar', ' ', 'spam', '\n', 'eggs']
The reason is that I want to split a string into tokens, manipulate it, then put it back together again.
>>> re.split('(\W)', 'foo/bar spam\neggs')
['foo', '/', 'bar', ' ', 'spam', '\n', 'eggs']
another example, split on non alpha-numeric and keep the separators
import re
a = "foo,bar@candy*ice%cream"
re.split('([^a-zA-Z0-9])',a)
output:
['foo', ',', 'bar', '@', 'candy', '*', 'ice', '%', 'cream']
explanation
re.split('([^a-zA-Z0-9])',a)
() <- keep the separators
[] <- match everything in between
^a-zA-Z0-9 <-except alphabets, upper/lower and numbers.
One Lazy and Simple Solution
Assume your regex pattern is split_pattern = r'(!|\?)'
First, you add some same character as the new separator, like '[cut]'
new_string = re.sub(split_pattern, '\\1[cut]', your_string)
Then you split the new separator, new_string.split('[cut]')
replace all seperator: (\W) with seperator + new_seperator: (\W;)
split by the new_seperator: (;)
def split_and_keep(seperator, s):
return re.split(';', re.sub(seperator, lambda match: match.group() + ';', s))
print('\W', 'foo/bar spam\neggs')
Here is a simple .split solution that works without regex.
This is an answer for Python split() without removing the delimiter, so not exactly what the original post asks but the other question was closed as a duplicate for this one.
def splitkeep(s, delimiter):
split = s.split(delimiter)
return [substr + delimiter for substr in split[:-1]] + [split[-1]]
Random tests:
import random
CHARS = [".", "a", "b", "c"]
assert splitkeep("", "X") == [""] # 0 length test
for delimiter in ('.', '..'):
for _ in range(100000):
length = random.randint(1, 50)
s = "".join(random.choice(CHARS) for _ in range(length))
assert "".join(splitkeep(s, delimiter)) == s
install wrs "WITHOUT REMOVING SPLITOR" BY DOING
pip install wrs
(developed by Rao Hamza)
import wrs
text = "Now inbox “how to make spam ad” Invest in hard email marketing."
splitor = 'email | spam | inbox'
list = wrs.wr_split(splitor, text)
print(list)
result: ['now ', 'inbox “how to make ', 'spam ad” invest in hard ', 'email marketing.']
I had a similar issue trying to split a file path and struggled to find a simple answer. This worked for me and didn't involve having to substitute delimiters back into the split text:
my_path = 'folder1/folder2/folder3/file1'
import re
re.findall('[^/]+/|[^/]+', my_path)
returns:
['folder1/', 'folder2/', 'folder3/', 'file1']
I found this generator based approach more satisfying:
def split_keep(string, sep):
"""Usage:
>>> list(split_keep("a.b.c.d", "."))
['a.', 'b.', 'c.', 'd']
"""
start = 0
while True:
end = string.find(sep, start) + 1
if end == 0:
break
yield string[start:end]
start = end
yield string[start:]
It avoids the need to figure out the correct regex, while in theory should be fairly cheap. It doesn't create new string objects and, delegates most of the iteration work to the efficient find method.
... and in Python 3.8 it can be as short as:
def split_keep(string, sep):
start = 0
while (end := string.find(sep, start) + 1) > 0:
yield string[start:end]
start = end
yield string[start:]
May I just leave it here
s = 'foo/bar spam\neggs'
print(s.replace('/', '+++/+++').replace(' ', '+++ +++').replace('\n', '+++\n+++').split('+++'))
['foo', '/', 'bar', ' ', 'spam', '\n', 'eggs']
Use re.split and also your regular expression comes from variable and also you have multi separator ,you can use as the following:
# BashSpecialParamList is the special param in bash,
# such as your separator is the bash special param
BashSpecialParamList = ["$*", "$@", "$#", "$?", "$-", "$$", "$!", "$0"]
# aStr is the the string to be splited
aStr = "$a Klkjfd$0 $? $#%$*Sdfdf"
reStr = "|".join([re.escape(sepStr) for sepStr in BashSpecialParamList])
re.split(f'({reStr})', aStr)
# Then You can get the result:
# ['$a Klkjfd', '$0', ' ', '$?', ' ', '$#', '%', '$*', 'Sdfdf']
reference: GNU Bash Special Parameters
Some of those answers posted before, will repeat delimiter, or have some other bugs which I faced in my case. You can use this function, instead:
def split_and_keep_delimiter(input, delimiter):
result = list()
idx = 0
while delimiter in input:
idx = input.index(delimiter);
result.append(input[0:idx+len(delimiter)])
input = input[idx+len(delimiter):]
result.append(input)
return result
In the below code, there is a simple, very efficient and well tested answer to this question. The code has comments explaining everything in it.
I promise it's not as scary as it looks - it's actually only 13 lines of code! The rest are all comments, docs and assertions
def split_including_delimiters(input: str, delimiter: str):
"""
Splits an input string, while including the delimiters in the output
Unlike str.split, we can use an empty string as a delimiter
Unlike str.split, the output will not have any extra empty strings
Conequently, len(''.split(delimiter))== 0 for all delimiters,
whereas len(input.split(delimiter))>0 for all inputs and delimiters
INPUTS:
input: Can be any string
delimiter: Can be any string
EXAMPLES:
>>> split_and_keep_delimiter('Hello World ! ',' ')
ans = ['Hello ', 'World ', ' ', '! ', ' ']
>>> split_and_keep_delimiter("Hello**World**!***", "**")
ans = ['Hello', '**', 'World', '**', '!', '**', '*']
EXAMPLES:
assert split_and_keep_delimiter('-xx-xx-','xx') == ['-', 'xx', '-', 'xx', '-'] # length 5
assert split_and_keep_delimiter('xx-xx-' ,'xx') == ['xx', '-', 'xx', '-'] # length 4
assert split_and_keep_delimiter('-xx-xx' ,'xx') == ['-', 'xx', '-', 'xx'] # length 4
assert split_and_keep_delimiter('xx-xx' ,'xx') == ['xx', '-', 'xx'] # length 3
assert split_and_keep_delimiter('xxxx' ,'xx') == ['xx', 'xx'] # length 2
assert split_and_keep_delimiter('xxx' ,'xx') == ['xx', 'x'] # length 2
assert split_and_keep_delimiter('x' ,'xx') == ['x'] # length 1
assert split_and_keep_delimiter('' ,'xx') == [] # length 0
assert split_and_keep_delimiter('aaa' ,'xx') == ['aaa'] # length 1
assert split_and_keep_delimiter('aa' ,'xx') == ['aa'] # length 1
assert split_and_keep_delimiter('a' ,'xx') == ['a'] # length 1
assert split_and_keep_delimiter('' ,'' ) == [] # length 0
assert split_and_keep_delimiter('a' ,'' ) == ['a'] # length 1
assert split_and_keep_delimiter('aa' ,'' ) == ['a', '', 'a'] # length 3
assert split_and_keep_delimiter('aaa' ,'' ) == ['a', '', 'a', '', 'a'] # length 5
"""
# Input assertions
assert isinstance(input,str), "input must be a string"
assert isinstance(delimiter,str), "delimiter must be a string"
if delimiter:
# These tokens do not include the delimiter, but are computed quickly
tokens = input.split(delimiter)
else:
# Edge case: if the delimiter is the empty string, split between the characters
tokens = list(input)
# The following assertions are always true for any string input and delimiter
# For speed's sake, we disable this assertion
# assert delimiter.join(tokens) == input
output = tokens[:1]
for token in tokens[1:]:
output.append(delimiter)
if token:
output.append(token)
# Don't let the first element be an empty string
if output[:1]==['']:
del output[0]
# The only case where we should have an empty string in the output is if it is our delimiter
# For speed's sake, we disable this assertion
# assert delimiter=='' or '' not in output
# The resulting strings should be combinable back into the original string
# For speed's sake, we disable this assertion
# assert ''.join(output) == input
return output