Find and Replace numbers in String

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Find and Replace numbers in String - giddyhead - Jul-16-2022

Hello everyone

I am looking for a way to take out numbers attached to concat string in paragraphs.

Before:
For example Paragraph:

1
It was 1their..some text, some text

2
This is one thing 2God....some text, some text

3
For 3He is.....some text, some text

150
5The people of....some text, some text

151
etc some text, some text

After:

For example Paragraph:

1
It was their..some text, some text

2
This is one thing God....some text, some text

3
For He is.....some text, some text

150
The people of....some text, some text

151
etc

The following regex is what I currently have :

re.sub('(?<=[ \t])?\d+\S\S+\S*','',txt)

and replaces the whole string instead of leaving only the words. How can I fix this task? Thanks

RE: Find and Replace numbers in String - menator01 - Jul-16-2022

Might could do something like

string = 'It was 1there...some text, some text'
for word in string:
    if word.isnumeric():
        string = string.replace(word, '')
print(string)

Output:
It was there...some text, some text

Of coarse it would be better suited to make it a function. This will remove all numbers.

RE: Find and Replace numbers in String - giddyhead - Jul-17-2022

(Jul-16-2022, 11:08 PM)menator01 Wrote: Might could do something like
string = 'It was 1there...some text, some text'
for word in string:
    if word.isnumeric():
        string = string.replace(word, '')
print(string)
Output:
It was there...some text, some text
Of coarse it would be better suited to make it a function

Thanks for the help and reply. Please mark this as complete.