如何删除以特定字符集开头的句子中的单词？

Question

I want to use regular expression in Python to remove certain words in a sentence that start with a specific set of characters.

For example: If I have a string "searches for IPhone 5s search results" , I want to remove all the words that start with search. Thus, the result should be: "for IPhone 5s results"

I used this:

query=re.sub(r"/search\w+/", "", query) 

but this doesn't remove the es from searches

Answer 1

query=re.sub(r"\bsearch\w+", "", query)

               ^^         ^^   

You dont need / here in python.

Answer 2

This would work for you

query=re.sub(r"\bsearch\w+", "", query)

\\b: sets up a boundary for the word search

\\w+: captures the remaining words after search have been matched.

Hope this helps