Norman Khine:
> I have a csv file which is has a field that has something like:
> "text (xxx)"
> "text (text) (yyy)"
> "text (text) (text) (zzz)"
>
> I would like to split the last '(text)' out and put it in a new column,
> so that I get:
> "text","(xxx)"
> "text (text)","(yyy)"
> "text (text) (text)","(zzz)"
Maybe something like this can be useful, after few improvements (RE
formatting is a work in progress):
from StringIO import StringIO
import re
datain = StringIO("""
"text (xxx)"
"text (text) (yy y) "
"text (text) (text) ( zzz ) "
""")
lastone = re.compile("""
\s* ( \(
[^()"]*
\)
\s* "
)
\s* $
""", re.VERBOSE)
def repl(mobj):
txt_found = mobj.groups()[0]
return '", "' + txt_found
for line in datain:
line2 = line.strip()
if line2:
print lastone.sub(repl, line2)
"""
The output is:
"text", "(xxx)"
"text (text)", "(yy y) "
"text (text) (text)", "( zzz ) "
"""
Bye,
bearophile
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