Question

I already extract some information from a forum. It is the raw string I have now:

string = 'i think mabe 124 + <font color="black"><font face="Times New Roman">but I don\'t have a big experience it just how I see it in my eyes <font color="green"><font face="Arial">fun stuff'

The thing I do not like is the sub string "<font color="black"><font face="Times New Roman">" and "<font color="green"><font face="Arial">". I do want to keep the other part of string except this. So the result should be like this

resultString = "i think mabe 124 + but I don't have a big experience it just how I see it in my eyes fun stuff"

How could I do this? Actually I used beautiful soup to extract the string above from a forum. Now I may prefer regular expression to remove the part.

Answer 1

import re
re.sub('<.*?>', '', string)
"i think mabe 124 + but I don't have a big experience it just how I see it in my eyes fun stuff"

The re.sub function takes a regular expresion and replace all the matches in the string with the second parameter. In this case, we are searching for all tags ('<.*?>') and replacing them with nothing ('').

The ? is used in re for non-greedy searches.

More about the re module.