Question

I have a variable string with unknown length that has the important string at the left side and the unimportant things on the right side separated by a single space. How do I remove the unimportant information to the right?

I have tried rstrip, and split with no success.

Edit: I’ll place the actual value that needs to be fixed.

"NPC_tester_contact() ) ntact()                                                                                                                                                                                                                 "

The very first space (the one left to the closed parenthesis) should have everything after including itself be marked as unimportant.

Edit: The output should be “NPC_tester_contact()“!

Look carefully at my string that I placed above. There is alot of whitespace after it as well. I assume that is what is causing the hiccup.

I have tried most of the solutions here and they either don’t do anything or just produce whitespace.

repr(s) gives me.

'NPC_me_lvup_event_contact()\x00t()\x00act()\x00act()\x00ntact()\x00\x00\x00\x00
\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00
\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00
\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00
\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00
\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00
\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00
\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00
\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00
\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00
\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00'

It should be “NPC_me_lvup_event_contact()“.

Thanks!

Perhaps this is a better question. Is there a way to remove all characters after the first \x00 hex that shows up in the string?

For some reason, it works sometimes and doesn’t always work. The above example was done with the method that Levon posted.

Solution: Problem solved. This is more of a null byte rather than a space byte. The solution would of been any of the below using “\x00″ as the identifier instead of ” “.

Thank you everyone!

Answer 1

UPDATE based on new string data:

Assuming s contains your string:

s.split('\x00')[0]

yields

'NPC_me_lvup_event_contact()'

split() will give you a list of strings separated by the character you specify with split. If none is specified space is used, in this case we use the hex character you are interested in.