Add comma between text

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I have a list of addresses in a text document and I want to add a comma after address line 1, and then save it all to a new text document.

example my list of addresses are

Address 1404 756 48 Stockholm
Address 9 756 52 Stockholm
Address 53 B lgh 1001 619 34 Stockholm
Address 72 B lgh 1101 619 30 Stockholm
Address 52 A 619 33 Stockholm

What I want the output to be

Address 1404, 756 48 Stockholm
Address 9, 756 52 Stockholm
Address 53 B lgh 1001, 619 34 Stockholm
Address 72 B lgh 1101, 619 30 Stockholm
Address 52 A, 619 33 Stockholm

I can’t figure out how to accurately place the comma at the right place (before the zip code) since the amount of whitespace isn’t the same for all addresses. The zip code consists of 5 digits for instance (756 48).

Asked By: based_and_redpilled

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Answer 1

You can use str.rstrip() to separate city and index from the first line:

file_line = 'Address 72 B lgh 1101 619 30 Stockholm'

# Use maxsplit=3
first_line, *second_line = address.rsplit(' ', 3)

new_address = f'{first_line}, {' '.join(second_line)}'

Answered By: Fedor Soldatkin

Answer 2

With regexp

import re
re.sub(r's(d{3}sd{2}s.*)$', ', \1', 'Address 53 B lgh 1001 619 34 Stockholm')
# 'Address 53 B lgh 1001, 619 34xa0Stockholm'

(the xa0 is part of your strings. It will print as a space)

Answered By: chrslg

Answer 3

Try this:

with open('sample.txt') as file:
  df = file.read()
  for line in df.split('n'):
    split_line = line.split()
    split_line.insert(-3, ',')
    new_line = " ".join(elem for elem in split_line).strip()
    print(new_line)

Output:

Address 1404 , 756 48 Stockholm
Address 9 , 756 52 Stockholm
Address 53 B lgh 1001 , 619 34 Stockholm
Address 72 B lgh 1101 , 619 30 Stockholm
Address 52 A , 619 33 Stockholm

The extra space before the commas can be adressed with a strip() further down.

Answered By: Remzinho

Answer 4

s='''Address 1404 756 48 Stockholm
Address 9 756 52 Stockholm
Address 53 B lgh 1001 619 34 Stockholm
Address 72 B lgh 1101 619 30 Stockholm
Address 52 A 619 33 Stockholm'''
lis=s.split('n')
lis1=[i.split(' ') for i in lis]
for i in lis1:
    for j in i:
        if i.index(j) == 1:
            lis1[lis1.index(i)][i.index(j)] = j +','

lis1=[' '.join(i) for i in lis1]
lis1='n'.join(lis1)
print(lis1)

Answered By: Ammar_Asim_23

Answer 5

If your postal code and city are limited to the format shown here (three digits, space, two digits, space, one word), then you can do this with a regular expression. It just needs to look for the postal code and city pattern, and capture both it and whatever comes before it, adding a comma in between:

>>> import re
>>> address_list = ['Address 1404 756 48 Stockholm', 'Address 9 756 52 Stockholm', 
'Address 53 B lgh 1001 619 34 Stockholm', 'Address 72 B lgh 1101 619 30 Stockholm', 
'Address 52 A 619 33 Stockholm']

# Define regex pattern as space+3digits+space+2digits+word.
# Parens capture both that pattern and everything before it (.*)
>>> p = re.compile(r"(.*)( d{3} d{2} w+)")

# Create a new list, replacing each item with group1+comma+group2
>>> new_addresses = [re.sub(p, r"1,2", a) for a in address_list]

>>> for a in new_addresses: print(a)                                                               

'Address 1404, 756 48 Stockholm'
'Address 9, 756 52 Stockholm'
'Address 53 B lgh 1001, 619 34 Stockholm'
'Address 72 B lgh 1101, 619 30 Stockholm'
'Address 52 A, 619 33 Stockholm'

If the patterns can be different than the examples you gave here (if a city can have two words, etc.) then you can still do this, you would just need to tweak the regex to match those patterns too.

Answered By: larapsodia

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