Using regular expressions to exclude non-alphanumeric characters

Question

I have a log of strings formatted as the follow: - SEGA E-r. Ata{{r}}i\n - SEGA E-r. Atari\n

I want to obtain the final result of SEGA E-r Atari using regular expressions. Here's what I've written but it doesn't get me my expected result:

temp = re.findall('.*[^\{*][^\}*].*', 'SEGA E-r. Ata{{r}}i\n')

Here's what I get as the result:

['SEGA E-r Ata{{r}}i\\n']

Could you please help me with this?

Update:

The problem has been solved using the following line of code:

re.sub("[^a-zA-Z0-9 -]","",'SEGA E-r. Ata{{r}}i\n')

What exactly are you trying to accomplish? Are you looking for all the places you can find that specific string? — Jeff B, Jun 11 '15 at 22:24

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:04

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Try something like this:

re.sub("[^a-zA-Z0-9 -]","",'SEGA E-r. Ata{{r}}i\n')

See this question for reference.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:04

Community

answered Jun 11 '15 at 20:35

Blair

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