Question

Hey I’m trying to figure out a regular expression to do the following.

Here is my string

Place,08/09/2010,"15,531","2,909",650

I need to split this string by the comma’s. Though due to the comma’s used in the numerical data fields the split doesn’t work correctly. So I want to remove the comma’s in the numbers before running splitting the string.

Thanks.

Answer 1

new_string = re.sub(r'"(\d+),(\d+)"', r'\1.\2', original_string)

This will substitute the , inside the quotes with a . and you can now just use the strings split method.