Split function

[samuelbachorik]

Hello dear users, iam using import re function to split my strings. For example i want to split characters +,- and string is "50+50-50" i get output ['50', '50', '50']. Is it possible to know if "-" or "+" was splitted and where ? Or is it possible to get output also with theese splitted characters ? So something like ['50','+','50', '-', '50']

here is code

import re

calc = "50+50-50"
answer = re.split('\*|\-|\+|\/',calc)


print(answer)

[Gribouillis]

Use a group to capture the splitting pattern too. Also, it is better to use raw strings with regexes to prevent interpretation of the backslash

>>> calc = "50+50-50"
>>> answer = re.split(r'(\*|\-|\+|\/)',calc)
>>> answer
['50', '+', '50', '-', '50']