Finding words after keyword in python

Question

I want to find words that appear after a keyword (specified and searched by me) and print out the result. I know that i am suppose to use regex to do it, and i tried it out too, like this:

import re
s = "hi my name is ryan, and i am new to python and would like to learn more"
m = re.search("^name: (\w+)", s)
print m.groups()

The output is just:

"is"

But I want to get all the words and punctuations that comes after the word "name".

Answer 1

What you have used regarding your output:

re.search("name (\w+)", s)

What you have to use (match all):

re.search("name (.*)", s)

Answer 2

import re
s = "hi my name is ryan, and i am new to python and would like to learn more"
m = re.search("^name: (\w+)", s)

print m.group(1)

Answer 3

Your example will not work, but as I understand the idea:

regexp = re.compile("name(.*)$")
print regexp.search(s).group(1)
# prints " is ryan, and i am new to python and would like to learn more"

This will print all after "name" and till end of the line.

Answer 4

You could simply do

s = "hi my name is ryan, and i am new to python and would like to learn more"
s.split('name')

This will split your string and return a list like this ['hi my', 'is ryan, and i am new to python and would like to learn more']

depending on what you want to do this may help or not.

Answer 5

Without using regex, you can

• strip punctuation (consider making everything single case, including search term)

• split your text into individual words

• find index of searched word

• get word from array (index + 1 for word after, index - 1 for word before )

Code snippet:

import string
s = 'hi my name is ryan, and i am new to python and would like to learn more'
t = 'name'
i = s.translate(string.maketrans("",""), string.punctuation).split().index(t)
print s.split()[i+1]

>> is

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For multiple occurences, you need to save multiple indices:

import string
s = 'hi my NAME is ryan, and i am new to NAME python and would like to learn more'
t = 'NAME'
il = [i for i, x in enumerate(s.translate(string.maketrans("",""), string.punctuation).split()) if x == t]
print [s.split()[x+1] for x in il]

>> ['is', 'python']

Answer 6

Instead of "^name: (\w+)" use:

"^name:(.*)"