Regular expression, "except end of string", question.

[David Fisher]

Peter Hansen <peter at engcorp.com> writes:

> David Eppstein wrote:
> 
> > Do you really need regexps for this?
> > 
> >>>>string = "WHITE/CLARET/PINK/XL"
> >>>>'-'.join(string.split('/',2))
> > 'WHITE-CLARET-PINK/XL'
> 
> Dang!  I started with split('/', 2) but stared at the
> result trying to figure out how the heck to join it
> to get the right result and ended up punting. :-(
> 
> -Peter

$ python
Python 2.3.4 (#1, Jun 13 2004, 11:21:03) 
[GCC 3.3.1 (cygming special)] on cygwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> string = "WHITE/CLARET/PINK/XL"
>>> string.replace('/','-',2)
'WHITE-CLARET-PINK/XL'
>>> 


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