How would I go about parsing string literal segments in a string?

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If I have a string like

'Hello, my name is "Bob" "I am 20 years old" I like to play "football"'

how would I go about parsing it in a way that gives me

["Bob", "I am 20 years old", "football"]

as a Python list?

Thanks!

Asked By: Omyy

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Answer 1

The python string.split() method allows you to specify a character that the string is divided by. The resulting array doesn’t remove the other content of the string, however you can use a quick for loop to select just the elements you’re interested in.

>>> a = 'Hello my name is "Bob" "I am 20 years old" I like to play "football"'
>>> b = a.split('"')
>>> b
['Hello my name is ', 'Bob', ' ', 'I am 20 years old', ' I like to play ', 'football', '']
>>> c = []
>>> for i in range(len(b)):
        if i%2 == 1:
            c.append(b[i])
>>> c
['Bob', 'I am 20 years old', 'football']

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Answered By: Benjamoomin64

Answer 2

Simply look for paired double quotes with anything except a double quote between them.

for match in re.finditer(r'"[^"]+"', text):
    print(match)

Answered By: tripleee

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