Question

I have a csv file with the data like this

Zoos, Sanctuaries & Animal Parks,7469,3.00

Unfortunately this is not correct as the first section should be all one field like this

"Zoos, Sanctuaries & Animal Parks","7469","3.00"

As this is just a once off import I would be just happy to transform it to

Zoos, Sanctuaries & Animal Parks|7469|3.00

with the last and second last comma’s converted to pipes. Is there an easy way to do this with regex?

Answer 1

To convert comma to pipe last 2 items, you could do like this

>>> re.sub(",(\d+),([\d.]+)$","|\\1|\\2","Zoos, Sanctuaries & Animal Parks,7469,3.00")
'Zoos, Sanctuaries & Animal Parks|7469|3.00'