Regex split on combination of capital letter and period for abbreviated first names

Question

This is my string:

'C. AndersonN. ChubbD. ForemanT. GurleyM. IngramA. JonesJ. Richard'

I'd like to use regex to split on the capital letter + period to generate a list like this:

['C. Anderson', 'N. Chubb', 'D. Foreman', 'T. Gurley', 'M. Ingram', 'A. Jones', 'J. Richard']

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

Instead of splitting, you can use re.findall for a simpler regex expression:

import re
s = 'C. AndersonN. ChubbD. ForemanT. GurleyM. IngramA. JonesJ. Richard'
new_s = re.findall('[A-Z]\.\s[A-Z][a-z]+', s)

Output:

['C. Anderson', 'N. Chubb', 'D. Foreman', 'T. Gurley', 'M. Ingram', 'A. Jones', 'J. Richard']