How do I extract a string segment after a specific word string in Python-CodePudding

Hobbies: - Running, Cycling, Rollerblading

I just want to extract the three hobbies: Running, cycling and rollerblading into a list without including in the word hobbies or any of the punctuations : - or space that might be there.

I tried r.split(', ') but it will include Hobbies: - Running. So that is not what i wanted.

CodePudding user response：

You can achieve that by first removing everything else including and on left of hyphen.

str1 = "Hobbies: - Running, Cycling, Rollerblading"
desired = str1.split("-")[1]
res = [i.strip() for i in desired.split(",")]
print(res)

CodePudding user response：

Split by the text before Running if you have this type of text you will have then grab only the second section of the code and finally split by a comma and a space which leaves you with just your words

r.split(': - ').pop(1).split(', ')

(Edit) I include the : in the original split in case you want to use this to also create a list of categories. You can then split this off into 2 commands.

temp = r.split(': - ')
category = temp[0]
listOfItems = temp[1].split(', ')