I have a column called SSN in a CSV file with values like this
289-31-9165
I need to loop through the values in this column and replace the first five characters so it looks like this
***-**-9165
Here's the code I have so far:
emp_file = "Resources/employee_data1.csv"
emp_pd = pd.read_csv(emp_file)
new_ssn = emp_pd["SSN"].str.replace([:5], "*")
emp_pd["SSN"] = new_ssn
How do I loop through the value and replace just the first five numbers (only) with asterisks and keep the hiphens as is?
Similar to Mr. Me, this will instead remove everything before the first 6 characters and replace them with your new format.
emp_pd["SSN"] = emp_pd["SSN"].apply(lambda x: "***-**" + x[6:])
You can simply achieve this with replace() method:
Example dataframe :
borrows from @AkshayNevrekar..
>>> df
ssn
0 111-22-3333
1 121-22-1123
2 345-87-3425
Result:
>>> df.replace(r'^\d{3}-\d{2}', "***-**", regex=True)
ssn
0 ***-**-3333
1 ***-**-1123
2 ***-**-3425
OR
>>> df.ssn.replace(r'^\d{3}-\d{2}', "***-**", regex=True)
0 ***-**-3333
1 ***-**-1123
2 ***-**-3425
Name: ssn, dtype: object
OR:
df['ssn'] = df['ssn'].str.replace(r'^\d{3}-\d{2}', "***-**", regex=True)
Put your asterisks in front, then grab the last 4 digits.
new_ssn = '***-**-' + emp_pd["SSN"][-4:]
You can use regex
df = pd.DataFrame({'ssn':['111-22-3333','121-22-1123','345-87-3425']})
def func(x):
return re.sub(r'\d{3}-\d{2}','***-**', x)
df['ssn'] = df['ssn'].apply(func)
print(df)
Output:
ssn
0 ***-**-3333
1 ***-**-1123
2 ***-**-3425
