I'm pretty new with regular expression. Basically, I would like to use regular expression to remove <sup> ... </sup> from the string using regular expression.
Input:
<b>something here</b><sup>1</sup><sup>,3</sup>, another here<sup>1</sup>
Output:
<b>something here</b>, another here
Is that a short way and description on how to do it?
note This question might be duplicated. I tried but couldn't find solution.
The hard part is knowing how to do a minimal rather than maximal match of the stuff between the tags. This works.
import re
s0 = "<b>something here</b><sup>1</sup><sup>,3</sup>, another here<sup>1</sup>"
prog = re.compile('<sup>.*?</sup>')
s1 = re.sub(prog, '', s0)
print(s1)
# <b>something here</b>, another here
You could do something like this:
import re
s = "<b>something here</b><sup>1</sup><sup>,3</sup>, another here<sup>1</sup>"
s2 = re.sub(r'<sup>(.*?)</sup>',"", s)
print s2
# Prints: <b>something here</b>, another here
Remember to use (.*?), as (.*) is what they call a greedy quantifier and you would obtain a different result:
s2 = re.sub(r'<sup>(.*)</sup>',"", s)
print s2
# Prints: <b>something here</b>
