Remove elements by index from a string within numpy array-CodePudding

I have the following example array with strings:

 ['100000000' '101010100' '110101010' '111111110']

I would like to be able to remove some elements by index in each of the strings in the array simultaneously. For example if I will remove elements with index 6 and 8, I should receive the following outcome:

 ['1000000' '1010110' '1101000' '1111110']

All my attempts failed so far maybe because the string is immutable, but am not sure whether I have to convert and if so - to what and how.

CodePudding user response：

import numpy as np

a = np.array(['100000000', '101010100', '110101010', '111111110'])

list(map(lambda s: "".join([c for i, c in enumerate(str(s)) if i not in {5, 7}]), a))

Returns:

['1000000', '1010110', '1101000', '1111110']

CodePudding user response：

Another way to do this is to convert a into a 2D array of single characters, mask out the values you don't want, and then convert back into a 1D array of strings.

import numpy as np

a = np.array(['100000000', '101010100', '110101010', '111111110'])

b = a.view('U1').reshape(*a.shape, -1)

mask = np.ones(b.shape[-1], dtype=bool)
mask[[5, 7],] = False

b = b[:, mask].reshape(-1).view(f'U{b.shape[-1] - (~mask).sum()}')