Split string and numbers with dashes in python

Question

I have two lists chapter and verse

The text that I'm trying to add to these lists are as follows:

"الشورى22-23", "السجدة44-55"

translated into "Alshoura22-23", "Alsadjah44-55"

The ouput should be:

chapter = ["الشورى", "السجدة"]

verse = ["22-23", "44-55"]

I tried many methods such as regression and iterate through each characters but to no avail! Could you please help?

Thank you

Answer 1

Regular expressions provide a way to accomplish this goal.

data = ["الشورى22-23", "السجدة44-55"]
verse = [re.findall(r'\d+\-\d+', s)[0] for s in data]
# ['22-23', '44-55']
chapter = [data[i].replace(verse[i], '') for i in range(len(verse))]
# ['الشورى', 'السجدة']