RegEx for capturing Korean alphabets

Question

My data frame in name is like below:

'가락시장(340)',
'가락시장(8)',
'가산디지털단지(7)',
'강남(222)',
'강남구청',
'강동',
'강동구청',
'강변(214)',
'개롱',
'개화산',
'거여',
'건대입구(212)',
'건대입구(7)',
'경복궁(317)',
'경찰병원(341)',
'고덕',
'고려대',
'고속터미널(329)',
'고속터미널(7)',
'공덕(5)',
'공덕(6)',
'공릉',
'광나루',
...

All list is in this link

Desired Output:

가락시장
가산디지털단지
강남
강남구청
강동
강동구청
강변
개롱
개화산
거여
건대입구
경복궁
경찰병원
고덕
고려대
고속터미널
공덕
공릉
광나루

Attempt

import re

for i in df['name']:
    i = re.match('^[가-힣]*$', i) # '^[가-힣]&$ is extract Hangeul (Korean alphabet)

But df['name'] does not change.

How do I solve this problem?

Answer 1

We might be able to capture your desired output with a simple expression, with only a ' as a left boundary, then collecting the letters, similar to:

'([\p{L}]+)

Test

# coding=utf8
# the above tag defines encoding for this document and is for Python 2.x compatibility

import re

regex = r"'([\p{L}]+)"

test_str = ("'가락시장(340)',\n"
    " '가락시장(8)',\n"
    " '가산디지털단지(7)',\n"
    " '강남(222)',\n"
    " '강남구청',\n"
    " '강동',\n"
    " '강동구청',\n"
    " '강변(214)',\n"
    " '개롱',\n"
    " '개화산',\n"
    " '거여',\n"
    " '건대입구(212)',\n"
    " '건대입구(7)',\n"
    " '경복궁(317)',\n"
    " '경찰병원(341)',\n"
    " '고덕',\n"
    " '고려대',\n"
    " '고속터미널(329)',\n"
    " '고속터미널(7)',\n"
    " '공덕(5)',\n"
    " '공덕(6)',\n"
    " '공릉',\n"
    " '광나루',")

matches = re.finditer(regex, test_str, re.MULTILINE)

for matchNum, match in enumerate(matches, start=1):

    print ("Match {matchNum} was found at {start}-{end}: {match}".format(matchNum = matchNum, start = match.start(), end = match.end(), match = match.group()))

    for groupNum in range(0, len(match.groups())):
        groupNum = groupNum + 1

        print ("Group {groupNum} found at {start}-{end}: {group}".format(groupNum = groupNum, start = match.start(groupNum), end = match.end(groupNum), group = match.group(groupNum)))

# Note: for Python 2.7 compatibility, use ur"" to prefix the regex and u"" to prefix the test string and substitution.

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