How to extract word after a substring in python

Question

I have a string contains a set of values i have extract a word(space should ignore) after a substring I tried splitting the string

text = text.split("Vehicle Number",1)[1]

text contains Vehicle Number 4092 casuality 230 \n report based on 23/54/2 accidents 0192

I have to store the values (Dictionary)

Vehicle Number : 4092,
report based on : 23/54/2,
accidents : 0192

How can i achieve this ?

Nandish Gupta · Accepted Answer · 2021-02-28 13:05:49Z

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There are many ways to do this. A clean way given a static set of words but dynamic positions:

text = "Vehicle Number 4092 casuality 230 \n report based on 23/54/2 accidents 0192"
text = text.split()

dictionary = {
    'Vehicle Number': text[text.index('Vehicle') + 2],
    'Report Based On': text[text.index('report') + 3],
    'Accidents': text[text.index('accidents') + 1]
}

edited Feb 28, 2021 at 13:05

answered Feb 28, 2021 at 12:49

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4 Comments

Naveen Over a year ago

The string value can change , i tried taking the text by index , but will be a failure when string value changes ,

Nandish Gupta Over a year ago

The string indices may change, but does the number of whitespaces change? @Naveen

Naveen Over a year ago

The string may change to like this Vehicle Number 4092 casuality 230 \n report based on 23/54/2 accidents 0192 Incident Type N/A Start Lifetime 601.9 KM Date/Time 1/14/21Trigger Lifetime63302.7 KM Operator Number N/A

Nandish Gupta Over a year ago

Thanks for the clarification. Though the current code would still work for this second example (since the initial whitespaces are the same), I'll edit it to be more safe under a new assumption that new positions can occur anywhere. @Naveen

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