Regular Expressions

[amitalable]

Assume that a poem is given. Write the regular expressions for the following:
If the pattern has characters 'ai' or 'hi', replace the next three characters with *\*.
poem ='''
If I can stop one heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain;
If I can ease one life the aching,
Or cool one pain,
Or help one fainting robin
Unto his nest again,
I shall not live in vain.'''

[ichabod801]

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[amitalable]

See, I was trying this code:

c = poem
a = c.split(" ")

for i in range(0,len(a)):
    laura = 0
    for j in range(0,len(a[i])):
        if len(a[i])>6:
            laura = 0
        elif a[i][j] == "\n":
                laura = 1
    if len(a[i])>=6 and laura == 0:
        list_=list(a[i])
        for j in range(0,len(list_)):
            if list_[j] =="a" and list_[j+1] =="i":
                list_[j+2] = "*"
                list_[j+3] = "\\"
                list_[j+4] = "*"
        temp=""
        for j in list_:
            temp+=j
        a[i] = temp
        list__=list(a[i])
        for j in range(0,len(list__)):
            if list__[j] =="h" and list__[j+1] =="i":
                list__[j+2] = "*"
                list__[j+3] = "\\"
                list__[j+4] = "*"
        temp1=""
        for j in list__:
            temp1+=j
        a[i] = temp1
b =""
for i in range(0,len(a)):
    b+=a[i] +" "
print(b)

I am getting this Output:

Output:
If I can stop one heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vai*\*If I can ease one life the achi*\*
Or cool one pai*\*Or help one fai*\*ng robin
Unto his nest agai*\*I shall not live in vain.

But the real output is

Output:
If I can stop one heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain;
If I can ease one life the achi*\*
Or cool one pain,
Or help one fai*\*ng robin
Unto hi*\*est again,
I shall not live in vain.

[ichabod801]

Your assignment says to use a regular expression, and you have failed to do that. You should read up on the re module, it will make the task so much simpler.

[DeaD_EyE]

Without regex (kiss):

poem.replace('ai', '*/*').replace('hi', '*/*')

A regex, which will detect ai and hi:

r'ai|hi'

You can use re.sub for replacement.
To construct or check a regex, you should visit this site:
https://regex101.com/