I would like to create a small Python regex in order to replace similar strings into several text files.
Problem is that those files may be a bit different in terms of whitespaces. For example first text file looks like this :
myString=${string_1}/${string_2}
But second text file contains the following string :
myString = ${string_1}/${string_2}
How can I write a regex that takes both string in both files and then replace myString with myString=${string_1}_${string_2}/string3 no matter how many whitespaces there are (let's assume we do not know the exact number).
So far, my regex looks like this :
temp_dir = tempfile.gettempdir()
temp_path = os.path.join(temp_dir, 'temp_file_name')
fin = open(path, 'r')
fout = open(temp_path, 'w')
#Beginning of the regex
for line in fin:
string = re.sub("myString=${string_1}/${string_2}", "myString=${string_1}_${string_2}/string3", line)
fout.write(string)
fin.close()
fout.close()
return temp_path
As you can see, I do not know how to match the possibility with whitespaces within the re.sub() method.
Do you have any ideas ? Thanks.
