How to extract human height (US) from string

Question

If I have a string that contains a human height in the US form (feet, inches)
e.g. I've been 5'10" since I was 18
how can I use regex to extract the 5'10" as a tuple?
e.g. (5, 10)

So far I tried:

s = "I've been 5'10\" since I was 18"
re.findall(r'\d\'\d+\"', s)

Hoping to grab the first digit, which should be a single digit \d and then the next two digits with \d+, but this doesn't work very cleanly, returning ['5\'10"'] and requiring more splitting etc. Ideally there is a way to do this all with regex.

What have you tried and what precisely is the problem with it? Start with e.g. https://stackoverflow.com/q/4736/3001761. — jonrsharpe, Aug 07 '18 at 17:01
I appreciate the reference to a general guide but I don't see how that helps me answer a very specific question without investing a substantial amount of time. — rer, Aug 07 '18 at 17:30
Such an investment in time will pay off in the future though. — Mark Rotteveel, Aug 07 '18 at 19:02

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 07 '18 at 17:05

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>>> r = re.compile('(\\d+)\'(\\d+)"')
>>> r.findall('''I've been 5'10" since I was 18''')
[('5', '10')]

answered Aug 07 '18 at 17:05

nosklo

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`\\d+` -> `\d+`. – Austin Aug 07 '18 at 17:09

starLord073 · Accepted Answer · 2018-08-08T06:09:07.327

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import re
a='''I've been 5'10" since I was 18''' #triple quotes to account for " after 10
p=re.compile(r"[0-9]+'[0-9]{2}\"")
print(re.findall(p,a)[0])

And Voila !

edited Aug 08 '18 at 06:09

answered Aug 07 '18 at 17:15

starLord073

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Edited it to fit any possible height now :) – starLord073 Aug 08 '18 at 06:10

How to extract human height (US) from string

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