Splitting on a regex w/o consuming delimiter

Emile van Sebille emile at fenx.com
Sun Nov 11 03:06:38 EST 2001


>>> ", @".join('one two @three @four five @six'.split('@')).split(',')
['one two ', ' @three ', ' @four five ', ' @six']

;-)

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Emile van Sebille
emile at fenx.com

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"Lars Kellogg-Stedman" <lars at larsshack.org> wrote in message
news:slrn9usaaa.4ao.lars at flowers.house.larsshack.org...
> >> Given a string such as:
> >>
> >>   sample = 'one two @three @four five @six'
> >>
> >> I want to split it on the '@' character, but I want the '@'
> >character to be
> >> retained in each sequence.  That is, I'd like the above string split
> >into:
> >>
> >>   one two
> >>   @three
> >>   @four five
> >>   @six
> >
> >You could do '@'.split(sample)' (which deletes at) and then add back
> >to all but first.
>
> I knew I should have said it the first time:  this is a contrived example;
> what if the delimiter regex was something like '\s(!|@)\s'?  Given:
>
>   foo ! bar @ baz @ xyzzy ! mumble
>
> You'd end up with:
>
>  [ 'foo', 'bar', 'baz', 'xyzzy', 'mumble' ]
>
> With no way of recovering the delimeter.
>
> Really, I just want to be able to split on (?=pattern), or some other
> method of splitting a string without consuming the delimiter.
>
> -- Lars
>
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> Lars Kellogg-Stedman <lars at larsshack.org> --> http://www.larsshack.org/
>




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