Search and Replace using regex in python

Question

str = \'{\"name\": \"John\", \"company\": \"AB\"C corp\", \"id\": \"12g: \"123 12-12\"}\'

B\"C replace with empty string \'\'

Answer 1

You can try this!

check if you have a character, (a colon or space or both) that is followed by " and by a \w(character or number).

>>> s
'{"name": "John", "company": "AB"C corp", "id": "12g: "123 12-12"}'
>>> re.sub('\w[: ]*"\w','',s)
'{"name": "John", "company": "A corp", "id": "1223 12-12"}'

Answer 2

Do you mean \W"\W and \w: "\d are the only cases you're worrying about?

Then try this:

str = re.sub(r'([a-zA-Z](\: )?"[A-Z0-9])', "", str)