Replace tab between names with a space

Question

How can I get rid of that tab with regular expressions? I also need to do it on the fly because the name will be inside a list.

import re
x = 'Muh    kay'

I want x to be

x = 'Muh Kay'

with only one space between them.

Create a regex that identifies tabs and replace it with a space — GalAbra, May 06 '18 at 16:31
Why do you need regular expressions? Split the string, then rejoin it on a space — OneCricketeer, May 06 '18 at 16:32
Why would you use regex to replace a specific character with another specific character? Just use `str.replace`. — Aran-Fey, May 06 '18 at 16:34
Do you want to replace the tab in the value of `x`, or in the source code itself? — chepner, May 06 '18 at 17:55

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered May 06 '18 at 16:36

2

You can use something like this re.sub(r'\t', ' ', s) which will replace tabs with space. Please refer this answer: How to replace custom tabs with spaces in a string, depend on the size of the tab?

answered May 06 '18 at 16:36

NKR

Prayson W. Daniel · Answer 2 · 2018-05-06T17:52:56.533

1

This will do:

x = 'Muh    kay'   
x = ' '.join(i.capitalize() for i in x.split())

edited May 06 '18 at 17:52

answered May 06 '18 at 16:40

Prayson W. Daniel

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered May 22 '23 at 12:31

0

I would do:

x.replace('\t', ' ')

However, this won't add the capital letter as the example shows.

answered May 22 '23 at 12:31

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