How to remove a specific character and one word following that character from a string in Python?-CodePudding

I wish to remove '#' from a client string.

Assume the string is '#Freahlife I just ate an apple'

I wish to write a function and extract only 'I just ate an apple'

How can I achieve this by using python? Thank you!

CodePudding user response：

You can use python's re module.

import re
re.sub(r"#\w \s?", "", "#Freahlife I just ate an apple")

Out[8]: 'I just ate an apple'

CodePudding user response：

If # is followed by Freahlife only, you can use replace function as mentioned by @anosha_rehan. But if the following word is unknown, you can use split function and put all the words in a list. Then, you can just loop and check if # is in the current word and has an index of 0 (making sure # is found at the start of the word). Then, remove that from the list and convert the list into a string.

CodePudding user response：

You can use the replace function and strip to remove any whitespace:

'#Freahlife I just ate an apple'.replace('#Freahlife','').strip()

or in generic:

' '.join('#Freahlife I just ate an apple'.split(' ')[1:])