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December 03, 2022
Python | Split String then Join
by: Shubham Sayon
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Summary: Use one of the following ways to split a string to get an element from a string:

Minimal Example

text = "cn=username,ou=group1,ou=group2,dc=domain1,dc=enterprise"

li = []
for pair in text.split(','):
    li.append(pair.split('=')[1])
print(li)
print('/'.join(li))

result = [pair.split('=')[1] for pair in text.split(',')]
print(result)
print('/'.join(result))

import re

li = re.split(r",.*?=", text[3:])
res = "/".join(li)
print(li)
print(res)

'''
===============OUTPUT in each case========================
['username', 'group1', 'group2', 'domain1', 'enterprise']
username/group1/group2/domain1/enterprise
==========================================================
'''

Problem Formulation

Example

Challenge: Extract certain substrings from the given string and then combine the extracted substrings with a “/” in between to create a new string. Thus, you first have to split the string accordingly and then join them to create a new string.

# Input
text = "subdomain=blog, sld=finxter, tld=com"
# Output
['blog', 'finxter', 'com']
blog/finxter/com

Method 1: Using a for Loop

Approach: Follow the explanation given below to understand how to solve the given problem.

  • First split the given string using comma “,” as the delimiter and then use a for loop to iterate through each item of the list returned by the split method.
  • Go ahead and further split each item into two parts such that the second element of this list will be the word that we actually need in the final string.
  • Store each word required in another list and then combine them to create a string using the join method. Use “/” as the joining link/string between each element.

Code:

text = "subdomain=blog, sld=finxter, tld=com"
li = []
for pair in text.split(','):
    li.append(pair.split('=')[1])
print(li)
print('/'.join(li))

Output:

['blog', 'finxter', 'com']
blog/finxter/com

Method 2: Using List Comprehension and Join

You can formulate the above solution in a more compact way by using a list comprehension. Use the list comprehension to split the string twice and store the required substrings in a list. Finally, join the items of list returned by the list comprehension using “/” as the join string within the join() method.

Code:

text = "subdomain=blog, sld=finxter, tld=com"
result = [pair.split('=')[1] for pair in text.split(',')]
print(result)
print('/'.join(result))

Output:

['blog', 'finxter', 'com']
blog/finxter/com

Method 3: Using regex

  • Yet another way to solve the problem is to use the split method of the regex module. The pattern ,.*?=", allows you to search and split all items that begin with a comma followed by any number of characters and then followed by an equals sign. In other words, you are simply storing the words that come between a comma and an equals sign in the given string.
  • Note that the second argument in the split method is an iterable and in this case, we are passing the string as the iterable such that we are considering the index from which the word “blog” starts.
  • Once you have the list containing the split strings, go ahead and join them using the join method with “/” as the joining string.

Code:

text = "subdomain=blog, sld=finxter, tld=com"
import re
li = re.split(r",.*?=", text[10:])
res = "/".join(li)
print(li)
print(res)

Output:

['blog', 'finxter', 'com']
blog/finxter/com

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Conclusion

Well! That brings us to the end of this tutorial. We solved the given problem with as many as three different ways. Feel free to opt the one that suits you.

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