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Python Regex to parse multiple "word. word. word."
I'm trying to parse lines like "THIS. THAT..OTHER " so that "THIS. THAT." is found. There can be more than one <word><dot> separated by a space except no space after the last one. Based on the initial feedback, I've added more example lines to the lines array below.
My current results are:
re.compile('\\s?(?P<name>(?:\\w+\\.\\s(?=[\\.\\s]))+)', re.VERBOSE)
REGEX FAILED: [THIS. THAT..OTHER
Here is the current code. I have tried several different regexes trying to find one that seeks the blank space after a dot for all but the last word/dot combination.
lines = [
'THIS. THAT..OTHER ',
'THIS. THAT. ANOTHER..OTHER ',
'THIS..OTHER ',
]
pat = re.compile(r"\s?(?P<name>(?:\w+\.\s(?=[\.\s]))+)", re.VERBOSE)
print(pat)
for line in lines:
x = pat.match(line)
if x:
if hasattr(x, 'groupdict'):
print(x.groupdict())
else:
print(x.groups())
else:
print("REGEX FAILED: [{}]".format(line))
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