I have a string that looks similar to the following:
string = "hello,2,test,1,[4,something,3],1,2"
When I split the string by commas I get the following array:
['hello', '2', 'test', '1', '[4', 'something', '3]', '1', '2']
How could I efficiently split the original string to instead get the following:
['hello', '2', 'test', '1', '[4,something,3]', '1', '2']
Use regex
import re
re.split(r",\s*(?![^[]*])",string)
Result:
['hello', '2', 'test', '1', '[4,something,3]', '1', '2']
Note this answer assumes no nested []
hello,2,test,1,[4,something,3],1,2,[4,[something],3]Here is one way:
string = "hello,2,test,1,[4,something,3],1,2"
string2 = string.split(",")
res = []
temp = []
found = False
for item in string2:
if (not(found)):
if "[" in item:
found = True
temp = []
temp.append(item[1:])
else:
res.append(item)
else:
if "]" in item:
found = False
temp.append(item[:-1])
final = str(temp).replace("'", "")
res.append(final)
else:
temp.append(item)
print(res)
Output:
['hello', '2', 'test', '1', '[4, something, 3]', '1', '2']
You can do it with a regular expression:
import re
string = "hello,2,test,1,[4,something,3],1,2"
x = re.findall(r'\[[^\]]+\](?=,|\b)|[^,]+(?=,|\b)', string)
x contains ['hello', '2', 'test', '1', '[4,something,3]', '1', '2'].
In the regex we have two cases separated by | (or). The first should handle the longer cases [something, in, brackets] the second can handle the simple cases. In case you are not familiar with it (?=,|\b) is a positive lookahead.
['hello', 2, 'test', 1, [4, 'something', 3], 1, 2]?