Python Regex to replace absolute paths in text to relative paths added in quotes

Question

I'm new to regex and was trying to solve the below problem.

Input String - String that has a path as /Users/MyName/moreofPath/ with additional text

Output String - String that has a path as "$relativePath/moreofPath/" with additional text

The absolute path in the sentence is to be recognized by

1) where /Users/MyName starts

2) where last / that comes before any other special character or space ends

This should be replaced by relative path in quotes. Can someone please help me find correct regex for this.

Answer 1

Since it's all Python, I would do something like this:

import re

thestring = "String that has a path as /Users/MyName/moreofPath/evenmore/ with additional text"
regex = "(.*?)/Users/MyName/(.*/)"
thestring = re.sub(regex, r'\1"$relativePath/\2"' , thestring)
print (thestring)

Output:

String that has a path as "$relativePath/moreofPath/evenmore/" with additional text

What I'm doing is grabbing the matches in the from the parans and substituting them back in the replacement. Note that the .* makes it greedy up to the last /

Answer 2

using regex that match any path follow by username as long its not space

import re
input_string = "String that has a path as /Users/MyName/moreofPath/ with additional text"
output_string = re.sub(r'/Users/MyName([^\s]*)', r'"$relativePath\1"', input_string)
# 'String that has a path as "$relativePath/moreofPath/" with additional text'