split list of strings using list-CodePudding

I have a list names that contains lists of strings.

names = ['Acquaintance Muller', 'Vice president Johnson Affiliate Peterson Acquaintance Dr. Rose', 'Vice president Dr. John Mister Schmid, PRT Miss Robertson, FDU']

I want to split each string using names_office in a loop over names

names_office = ['Acquaintance Muller', 'Miss Robertson, FDU', 'Vice president Johnson', 'Affiliate Peterson', 'Acquaintance Dr. Rose', 'Vice president Dr. John', 'Mister Schmid, PRT']

desired_output

names = ['Acquaintance Muller', 'Vice president Johnson', 'Affiliate Peterson', 'Acquaintance Dr. Rose', 'Vice president Dr. John', 'Mister Schmid, PRT', 'Miss Robertson, FDU']

I need to iterate irrespective of order.

CodePudding user response：

import re

re.findall("|".join(names_office), ",".join(names))
 
['Acquaintance Muller',
 'Vice president Johnson',
 'Affiliate Peterson',
 'Acquaintance Dr. Rose',
 'Vice president Dr. John',
 'Mister Schmid, PRT',
 'Miss Robertson, FDU']

The above will throw away values not found in the names_office list.

To maintain everything do:

results = []
pat = f"\\b({'|'.join(names_office)})\\b "
for i in names:
   results.extend(re.sub(pat, "\\1:",i).split(':'))

print(results)

CodePudding user response：

I don't fully understand what you want to split by, but the following will split by , and flatten the results into a single list. Presumably you can adapt this to your use case, although I would be curious to understand the exact requirements, as I just couldn't figure it out from your question

[part.strip()  for name in names for part in name.split(',')]