"Bryan Fodness" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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I have a string (column names) that I need to split.
D_H = 'D 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 D Upper D Lower'
I cannot do a simple list(D_H).split because the last two strings have a
space between them (D Upper and D Lower are two, not four labels).
Any suggestions?
How was the string built? Is it possible to delimit the columns with
something besides a space, since a space is a valid character in a column
name. Baring that, adding a little knowledge of the string is needed:
import re
D_H = 'D 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 D Upper D Lower'
print re.split(r'\s(?![UL])',D_H) # split on spaces not followed by U or
L.
['D', '5', '10', '15', '20', '25', '30', '35', '40', 'D Upper', 'D Lower']
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Mark
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