How to extract numbers of different forms from text

Question

For example, given the text - "home price went up from 500 thousands to two millions". Is there an easy way, in Python, to get the two numbers - 500,000 and 2,000,000?

Look into [regular expressions](https://docs.python.org/3/library/re.html) — Robert, Apr 08 '22 at 21:02

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 08 '22 at 20:31

One way to go about this can be to extract all the numbers and the immediate words next to them so e.g. [500, thousands] or [1.5, millions]. You can do this with a regex. Next, you convert the second string to its numerical value and multiply it with the first number to get the full numerical equivalent. You can have a look at this answer for some ways to do that.

How to extract numbers of different forms from text

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