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can anybody tell me the re expression for split the string-->('(A) gre (B)Toefl (C)PET (D)CET') to a list ['gre','Toefl','PET','CET']

Can anybody tell me the re expression for splitting the string:

('(A) gre (B)Toefl (C)PET (D)CET')

to a list:

['gre','Toefl','PET','CET']

using Python?

Solution

  • You could capture anything -- except an opening parenthesis -- after a closing parenthesis, trimmed:

    s = '(A) an example (B) next point (C)CAPS, lowercase! (D)CET'
result = re.findall(r"\)\s*([^(]*)(?<! )", s)

    result will be:

    ['an example', 'next point', 'CAPS, lowercase!', 'CET']