Remove numbers from string square bracket

Question

I have a huge string which contains a lot of numbers in square brackets. For instance:

[1] this is an example ... [123] another example

How can I remove the numb

Answer 1

Try using re.sub:

import re

text = txtFile.read()
text = str(text)
text = re.sub(r'\[\d+\]', '', text)

The regex pattern \[\d+\] should match any bracket term which has one or more numbers in it.

Note that re.sub by default will do a replacement against the entire input string.