Cleaning strings with Regular Expressions

[sheffdog]

Hello,

I often find myself cleaning up strings like the following:

setAttr ".ftn" -type "string" /assets/chars/
/boya/geo/textures/lod1/ppbhat.tga";

Using regular expressions, the best I can do so far is using the re.sub
command but it still takes two lines. Can I do this in one line? Or
should I be approaching this differently? All I want to end up with is
the file name "ppbhat.tga".

Python Code:
lines[indexC]=re.sub("[\s,\S,]*/", "", lines[indexC])
lines[indexC]=re.sub(".tga[\s,\S,]*", ".tga", lines[indexC])

Thanks for your time,

/\/\ason S

[Fredrik Lundh]

"sheffdog" <ma************@gmail.com> wrote:

setAttr ".ftn" -type "string" /assets/chars/
/boya/geo/textures/lod1/ppbhat.tga"; Can I do this in one line?

os.path.basename("/assets/chars/.../lod1/ppbhat.tga")

'ppbhat.tga'

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[Larry Bates]

May not be what you are looking for, but this works:

import os
s='setAttr ".ftn" -type "string" ' \
'/assets/chars/boya/geo/textures/lod1/ppbhat.tga";'
fname=os.path.basename(s.split()[-1])
BTW-It does depend on the file/path being the last item
on the line.

Larry Bates
sheffdog wrote:

Hello,

I often find myself cleaning up strings like the following:

setAttr ".ftn" -type "string" /assets/chars/
/boya/geo/textures/lod1/ppbhat.tga";

Using regular expressions, the best I can do so far is using the re.sub
command but it still takes two lines. Can I do this in one line? Or
should I be approaching this differently? All I want to end up with is
the file name "ppbhat.tga".

Python Code:
lines[indexC]=re.sub("[\s,\S,]*/", "", lines[indexC])
lines[indexC]=re.sub(".tga[\s,\S,]*", ".tga", lines[indexC])

Thanks for your time,

/\/\ason S

[sheffdog]

Using basename works, but leaves the extra stuff at the end.
Which would have to be removed with another line of code

I get this--> ppbhat.tga";

Thanks, for the idea though.
/\/\ason

[Fredrik Lundh]

"sheffdog" <ma************@gmail.com> wrote:

Using basename works, but leaves the extra stuff at the end.
Which would have to be removed with another line of code

I get this--> ppbhat.tga";

if you're trying to parse Maya files, maybe you should start
by writing a simple Maya parser, and use that to extract the
relevant strings, *before* passing them to os.path.baseline?

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[sheffdog]

Good Idea I'll try that!

Thanks for your assistance.
/\/\

[Gary Wilson Jr]

sheffdog wrote:

Using regular expressions, the best I can do so far is using the re.sub
command but it still takes two lines. Can I do this in one line? Or
should I be approaching this differently? All I want to end up with is
the file name "ppbhat.tga".

A regular expression to do what you want:

s = 'setAttr ".ftn" -type "string" /assets/chars/boya/geo/textures/lod1/ppbhat.tga";'
s = re.sub(r".*/(.*\.tga).*", r"\1", s)
s

'ppbhat.tga'

Is a regular expression the best solution?
That depends on what else you need to do with your data file.