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Replace all alpha characters within double quotes with underscores? - walterbyrd - Nov-25-2017
For example, I want to change this string:
Quote:'abc "this that" xyz'
with this string:
Quote:'abc ____ ____ xyz'
There will only be one pair of double quotes in the string.
I think I know how to find the positions of the double quote delimiters, and how to replace an alpha character with an underscore. But I am not about how to put it into a loop.
import re s = 'abc "this that" xyz' d = '"' # find and print order of " delimiter print ( [pos for pos, char in enumerate(s) if char == d] ) # replace t = s.replace(s[i], '_')
RE: Replace all alpha characters within double quotes with underscores? - Larz60+ - Nov-26-2017
If you play with it, you can make this more compact.
I'd do it myself, but getting tired.
import re
s = 'abc "this that" xyz'
i1, i2 = [match.start() for match in re.finditer('"', s)]
s1 = s[:i1]
for char in s[i1+1:]:
if char == '"':
break
if char != ' ':
s1 += '_'
else:
s1 += ' '
s1 += s[i2+1:]
print(s1)prints:Output:abc ____ ____ xyz