Hello!
I have the following problem:
This is the string: asdas asdd sd a2123 3234 "test asd" asda
Is possible to remove all spaces except the spaces between "" ?
Thank you!
where does this string come from - is it a file
if it comes from a file, you can use csv module, if it's just a string - you can use io.StringIO and then csv module
spam = 'asdas asdd sd a2123 3234 "test asd" asda'
import io
import csv
eggs = io.StringIO(spam)
rdr = csv.reader(eggs, delimiter=' ')
for line in rdr:
print(line)Output:
['asdas', 'asdd', 'sd', 'a2123', '3234', 'test asd', 'asda']
you can further process the list to get desired output
Ok, managed to write some piece of code to do the job:
word = "asdas asdd sd a2123 3234 \"test asd sdd 12 3231 123\" asda"
quo = False
wordT = ""
for letter in word:
if letter == "\"" and quo == False:
quo = True
wordT += letter
continue
if quo == False:
wordT += letter
if quo == True:
if letter == " ":
wordT += "_"
else:
wordT += letter
if letter == "\"" and quo == True:
quo = False
print(wordT.replace(" ","").replace("_"," "))Output:
asdasasddsda21233234"test asd sdd 12 3231 123"asda
But the solution is not very elegant.
You could use @buran's solution and just fix the print statement to
print(''.join(line))