Python：拆分字符串并保持字符拆分

Question

It's my first day working with regex, and I ran into a problem. The string i'm trying to manipulate is...

1-11-1111A month and a day and a year.

I'm trying to split into: 1-11-1111 and A month a day and a year using splitstring = re.split(r'(?=\\d+\\d+\\d+\\d)', item) , but the results are 1-11- and 1111 A month a day and a year and i'm not sure where i'm going wrong here based on what i've read. Thanks for your time!!

Answer 1

Couple of options...

import re

pattern = re.compile(r'([0-9-]+)([A-Z].*)')

item = '1-11-1111A month and a day and a year.'

splitstring = [pattern.match(item)[1], pattern.match(item)[2]]
print(splitstring)

Output:

['1-11-1111', 'A month and a day and a year.']

Or using @Cary Swoveland's regex with the original split (works if it's a number followed by a capital 'A'...

splitstring = re.split(r'(?<=\d)(?=A)', item)
splitstring

Output:

['1-11-1111', 'A month and a day and a year.']