Split string by multiple delimiters, ignore repeating delimiters

Question

I am trying to parse the string that has multiple delimiters that may be repeating.

The input string is: 

"-abc,-def,ghi-jkl,mno"

Expected return is:

 

["abc", "def", "ghi", "jkl", "mno"]

I tried the belwo code:

re.split(",|-", string)

Gives the output:

['', 'abc', '', 'def', 'ghi', 'jkl', 'mno']

Answer 1

Use the re.findall:

re.findall(r'[^-,]+', string)

Python code:

import re

regex = r"[^,-]+"

string = "-abc,-def,ghi-jkl,mno"

print(re.findall(regex, string))

Result: ['abc', 'def', 'ghi', 'jkl', 'mno']

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