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1. Regular expression: match start or whitespace    stackoverflow.com

Can a regular expression match whitespace or the start of a string? I'm trying to replace currency the abbreviation GBP with a £ symbol. I could just match anything starting GBP, but ...

2. collapsing whitespace in a string    stackoverflow.com

I have a string that kind of looks like this:

"stuff   .  // : /// more-stuff .. .. ...$%$% stuff -> DD"

3. Regex for removing whitespace    stackoverflow.com

def remove_whitespaces(value):
    "Remove all whitespaces"
    p = re.compile(r'\s+')
    return p.sub(' ', value)

4. Regex: Matching a space-joined list of words, excluding last whitespace    stackoverflow.com

How would I match a space separated list of words followed by whitespace and some optional numbers? I have this:

>>> import re
>>> m = re.match('(?P<words>(\S+\s+)+)(?P<num>\d+)?\r\n', 'Foo Bar  12345\r\n')
>>> m.groupdict()
{'num': '12345', 'words': ...

5. Anyone know a good regex to remove extra whitespace?    stackoverflow.com

Possible Duplicate:
Substitute multiple whitespace with single whitespace in Python

"hi   ...

6. Python Regular expression must strip whitespace except between quotes    stackoverflow.com

As the title says, I need a way to remove all whitespace from a string, except when that whitespace is between quotes.

result = re.sub('".*?"', "", content)

7. Replacing whitespaces within list elements    stackoverflow.com

I have a list of tags:

>>> tags_list
['tag1', 'second tag', 'third longer tag']

8. how to match whitespace and alphanumeric characters in python    stackoverflow.com

hey guys im trying to match a string that has a space in the middle and alphanumeric characters like so:

test = django cms

patter = ...

9. python regex sub space    stackoverflow.com

CODE:

word = 'aiuhsdjfööäö ; sdfdfd'
word1=re.sub('[^^äÄöÖåÅA-Za-z0-9\t\r\n\f()!{$}.+?|]',"""\[^^0-9\t\r\n\f(!){$}.+?|\]*""", word) ; print 'word=  ', word
word2=re.sub('[^^äÄöÖåÅA-Za-z0-9\t\r\n\f()!{$}.+?|]',"""\[^^0-9\\t\\r\\n\\f(!){$}.+?|\]*""", word) ; print 'word=  ', word
word3=re.sub('[^^äÄöÖåÅA-Za-z0-9\t\r\n\f()!{$}.+?|]',"""\[^^0-9\\\t\\\r\\\n\\\f(!){$}.+?|\]*""", word) ; print 'word=  ', word
word4=re.sub('[^^äÄöÖåÅA-Za-z0-9\s()!{$}.+?|]',"""\[^^0-9\s(!){$}.+?|\]*""", word) ; print 'word=  ...

10. Remove whitespace and make all lowercase in a string for python    stackoverflow.com

How do I remove all whitespace from a string and make all characters lowercase in python? Also, can I add this operation to the string prototype like I could in javascript?

11. Remove whitespace from a regex search in a file    stackoverflow.com

I'm attempting to remove all whitespace from a selected string search using regexp. The code works but it continues to return an error that I'm not sure how to resolve ...?

elif ...

12. Partitioning a string in Python by a regular expression    stackoverflow.com

I need to split a string into an array on word boundaries (whitespace) while maintaining the whitespace. For example:

'this is  a\nsentence'

['this', ' ', 'is', '  ', 'a' '\n', 'sentence']

13. Remove/Replace all whitespaces from a multi-lines string, except newline characters    stackoverflow.com

I want to remove all whitespace characters from a multi-line string using regex. What I am looking for is something like:

exp = re.compile("\s-[\r\n]")
exp.sub('', text)

14. removing random whitespace    stackoverflow.com

All, I have some indexed text that I would like to format in a more uniform manor. For example:

I    live in  Virginia   and it is  ...

15. How to replace just one whitespace with regex in python?    stackoverflow.com

for example:

T h e   t e x t   i s   w h a t   I   w a n t  ...

16. Regular Expression - Python - Remove Leading Whitespace    stackoverflow.com

I search a text file for the word Offering with a regular expression. I then use the start and end points from that search to look down the column and pull ...

17. Transform a regular expression into another    stackoverflow.com

I have to write regular expressions to match some tokenizable text, and it will be cumbersome to add all the \s* and \s+ where the amount of whitespace is insignificant or ...

18. Regex to match word and trailing whitespace pairs    stackoverflow.com

I have a text:

"    Alice, Bob    Charlie  "

19. Split string on whitespace in python    stackoverflow.com

I'm looking for the python equivalent of

String str = "many   fancy word \nhello    \thi";
String whiteSpaceRegex = "\\s";
String[] words = str.split(whiteSpaceRegex);

["many", "fancy", "word", "hello", "hi"]