25 lines
1.3 KiB
Python
25 lines
1.3 KiB
Python
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On line #4 Regex
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This feeds a regex to re.sub literally "If it doesn't match letters or spaces, convert it to nothing, process this variable."
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Scrub extranous info or typos.
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r marks it as a string literal (no escaping needed)
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[] indicates a set of characters, special characters become normal.
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^ = start of the string. In a set like this, it matches anything that is not in the string.
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a-z matches lowercase letters.
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Z-Z matches caps letters
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matches a space
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+? essential means "try to match this till you can't"
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More info: https://docs.python.org/3/library/re.html
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### Stackoverflow thanks to:
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First char of string: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/48973202/how-to-get-first-char-of-string-in-python
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Length of string: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4967580/how-to-get-the-size-of-a-string-in-python
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Regex to scrub var of extranous info/symbols: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44315941/regex-to-strip-all-numbers-and-special-characters-but-space-and-letters
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Proper syntax for if blocks: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37376516/python-check-if-multiple-variables-have-the-same-value
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https://www.tutorialspoint.com/python/python_if_else.htm
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Find substring in a string: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3437059/does-python-have-a-string-contains-substring-method
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