Delete string in between special characters in python

Question

I have string something like this

mystring = "CBS Network Radio Panel;\ntitle2 New York OCT13W4, Panel Weighting;\n*options; mprint ls=max mprint;\n\n****************************************out; asd; ***hg;"

I want to delete the string between * and ; output should be

"CBS Network Radio Panel;\ntitle2 New York OCT13W4, Panel Weighting;\ mprint ls=max mprint;\n\n asd;"

I have tried this code

re.sub(r'[\*]*[a-z]*;', '', mystring)

But it's not working.

Answer 1

You may use

re.sub(r'\*[^;]*;', '', mystring)

See the Python demo :

import re
mystring = "CBS Network Radio Panel;\ntitle2 New York OCT13W4, Panel Weighting;\n*options; mprint ls=max mprint;\n\n****************************************out; asd; ***hg;"
r = re.sub(r'\*[^;]*;', '', mystring)
print(r)

Output:

CBS Network Radio Panel;
title2 New York OCT13W4, Panel Weighting;
 mprint ls=max mprint;

 asd;

The r'\\*[^;]*;' pattern matches a literal * , followed with zero or more characters other than ; and then a ; .