Python remove gibberish and everything after from a string

Question

Just wondering if there is a way to cut all the gibberish from a string. (for example, if the string was: stackoverflowfoajfasjsdksakklsslQuestion ) How would I remove the gibberish and anything after?

The reason I am asking for this is that I have a camera that only saves things as: "Image01jsjajdiahdkasdiajdksjCameraImage" (stuff like that) and I want to remove all the stuff after the image number. It would be good if this worked with any file name, too.

Answer 1

If the string you want is fixed length, you can get the first characters as a new string.

#This is the full string with gibberish
fullString = 'StackOverflow1235125'

#We'd like to get StackOverflow
getString = 'StackOverflow'

#We need the length
getStringLength = getString.__len__() #This returns 13 because StackOverflow is 13 chars.

returnString = fullString[:getStringLength] #This trims the fullString, only leaving the first 13 characters.
print(returnString)

The output is

StackOverflow

Answer 2

I want to remove all the stuff after the image number

import re

text = "Image01jsjajdiahdkasdiajdksjCameraImage"

result = re.match(r"(.*\d+)", text)

print(result.group())

Output:

Image01