Question

Is there anyway to strip or replace or anything like that from one index to another index within a single string?

For example, if I have a string like “first – second – third” and I want to remove the middle part (” – second – “), how could I do this?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Your string:

s = 'first - second - third'

and the possible solutions:

s.replace(' - second - ', '')

or

''.join(s.split(' - ')[::2])

or

''.join(s.split(' - second - '))

or if you know the indices:

s[:5] + s[-5:]

or just searching for the first and last space:

s[:s.index(' ')] + s[s.rindex(' ')+1:]

all of them return 'firstthird'