I need to split text before the second occurrence of the '-' character. What I have now is producing inconsistent results. I've tried various combinations of rsplit
and read through and tried other solutions on SO, with no results.
Sample file name to split: 'some-sample-filename-to-split'
returned in data.filename
. In this case, I would only like to have 'some-sample'
returned.
fname, extname = os.path.splitext(data.filename)
file_label = fname.rsplit('/',1)[-1]
file_label2 = file_label.rsplit('-',maxsplit=3)
print(file_label2,'\n','---------------','\n')
You can do something like this:
>>> a = "some-sample-filename-to-split"
>>> "-".join(a.split("-", 2)[:2])
'some-sample'
a.split("-", 2)
will split the string upto the second occurrence of -
.
a.split("-", 2)[:2]
will give the first 2 elements in the list. Then simply join the first 2 elements.
OR
You could use regular expression : ^([\w]+-[\w]+)
>>> import re
>>> reg = r'^([\w]+-[\w]+)'
>>> re.match(reg, a).group()
'some-sample'
EDIT: As discussed in the comments, here is what you need:
def hyphen_split(a):
if a.count("-") == 1:
return a.split("-")[0]
else:
return "-".join(a.split("-", 2)[:2])
>>> hyphen_split("some-sample-filename-to-split")
'some-sample'
>>> hyphen_split("some-sample")
'some'
A generic form to split a string into halves on the nth occurence of the separator would be:
def split(strng, sep, pos):
strng = strng.split(sep)
return sep.join(strng[:pos]), sep.join(strng[pos:])
If pos
is negative it will count the occurrences from the end of string.
>>> strng = 'some-sample-filename-to-split'
>>> split(strng, '-', 3)
('some-sample-filename', 'to-split')
>>> split(strng, '-', -4)
('some', 'sample-filename-to-split')
>>> split(strng, '-', 1000)
('some-sample-filename-to-split', '')
>>> split(strng, '-', -1000)
('', 'some-sample-filename-to-split')
You can use str.index()
:
def hyphen_split(s):
pos = s.index('-')
try:
return s[:s.index('-', pos + 1)]
except ValueError:
return s[:pos]
test:
>>> hyphen_split("some-sample-filename-to-split")
'some-sample'
>>> hyphen_split("some-sample")
'some'
You could use regular expressions:
import re
file_label = re.search('(.*?-.*?)-', fname).group(1)