Split on Any of Several Delimiters

Easy ⏱ 8 min 81% acceptance ★★★★★ 4.7

Survey answers separate items with commas, semicolons or pipes, plus stray spaces. Write tokens(text) using re.split on [,;|] with surrounding whitespace, dropping empty results.

Examples

Example 1

Input

tokens('python, sql; excel | power bi')

Output

['python', 'sql', 'excel', 'power bi']

Explanation

All three delimiters split; padding is trimmed.

Constraints

One re.split call.
No empty strings in the output.

Topics

Regular Expressionssplit

Companies

AccentureIBMWipro

Hints

Hint 1

r'\s*[,;|]\s*' eats the padding with the delimiter.

Hint 2

Filter falsy items after splitting.

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