remove spaces with exceptions - Printable Version

remove spaces with exceptions - Printable Version

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remove spaces with exceptions - catosp - May-29-2020

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!

RE: remove spaces with exceptions - buran - May-29-2020

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

RE: remove spaces with exceptions - catosp - May-29-2020

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.

RE: remove spaces with exceptions - pyzyx3qwerty - May-29-2020

You could use @buran's solution and just fix the print statement to

print(''.join(line))

RE: remove spaces with exceptions - catosp - May-29-2020

@buran and @pyzyx3qwerty
Thank you all !
I will use the @buran solution.