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Re: Split on multiple delimiters, and also treat consecutive delimiters as a single delimiter?

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On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 11:55 PM, Victor Hooi <victorhooi@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a line that looks like this:
>
>     14     *0    330     *0     760   411|0       0   770g  1544g   117g   1414 computedshopcartdb:103.5%          0      30|0     0|1    19m    97m  1538 ComputedCartRS  PRI   09:40:26
>
> I'd like to split this line on multiple separators - in this case, consecutive whitespace, as well as the pipe symbol (|).

Correct me if I'm misanalyzing this, but it sounds to me like a simple
transform-then-split would do the job:

f.replace("|"," ").split()

Turn those pipe characters into spaces, then split on whitespace. Or,
reading it differently: Declare that pipe is another form of
whitespace, then split on whitespace. Python lets you declare anything
you like, same as mathematics does :)

ChrisA

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Split on multiple delimiters, and also treat consecutive delimiters as a single delimiter? Victor Hooi <victorhooi@gmail.com> - 2015-07-28 06:55 -0700
  Re: Split on multiple delimiters, and also treat consecutive delimiters as a single delimiter? m <mvoicem@gmail.com> - 2015-07-28 15:59 +0200
    Re: Split on multiple delimiters, and also treat consecutive delimiters as a single delimiter? Victor Hooi <victorhooi@gmail.com> - 2015-07-28 07:09 -0700
      Re: Split on multiple delimiters, and also treat consecutive delimiters as a single delimiter? MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2015-07-28 15:30 +0100
  Re: Split on multiple delimiters, and also treat consecutive delimiters as a single delimiter? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-07-29 10:08 +1000
    Re: Split on multiple delimiters, and also treat consecutive delimiters as a single delimiter? Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2015-07-28 19:41 -0700
  Re: Split on multiple delimiters, and also treat consecutive delimiters as a single delimiter? Joel Goldstick <joel.goldstick@gmail.com> - 2015-07-28 21:28 -0400

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