How to select all the words together with punctuation, that come after another word in a string in python

Asked Nov 06 '18 at 12:31

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I have the following String

text_clean = 'i am a person. i believe i can fly. i believe i can touch the sky.'

and the word

wd = 'can'

I could like to get all words after the wd but together with the . if it exists. So I would like to get ['fly.', 'touch']

I have tried

import re
re.findall(r'{} \b(\S+)\b'.format(wd),text_clean)

according to this question but the solution does not give me the .'s also

edited Nov 06 '18 at 13:23

Abdul Niyas P M

asked Nov 06 '18 at 12:31

quant

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Remove word boundaries, `r'{} (\S+)'.format(wd)`. See https://ideone.com/H7nyKa. Why did you add them there? – Wiktor Stribiżew Nov 06 '18 at 12:33
damn, that was easy. I got lost in the regex expression. You can add it as answer – quant Nov 06 '18 at 12:36
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No need to, "Remove word boundaries" is not long enough for an answer. You just need to read up on word boundaries to avoid such issues in future. – Wiktor Stribiżew Nov 06 '18 at 12:37

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