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import re
# import regex # if you like good times
# intended to replace `re`, the regex module has many advanced
# features for regex lovers. http://p...content-available-to-author-only...n.org/pypi/regex
subject = 'Jane"" ""Tarzan12"" Tarzan11@Tarzan22 {4 Tarzan34}'
regex = re.compile(r'{[^}]+}|"Tarzan\d+"|(Tarzan\d+)')
# put Group 1 captures in a list
matches = [group for group in re.findall(regex, subject) if group]
######## The four main tasks we're likely to have ########
# Task 1: Is there a match?
print("*** Is there a Match? ***")
if len(matches)>0:
	print ("Yes")
else:
	print ("No")
# Task 2: How many matches are there?
print("\n" + "*** Number of Matches ***")
print(len(matches))
# Task 3: What is the first match?
print("\n" + "*** First Match ***")
if len(matches)>0:
	print (matches[0])
# Task 4: What are all the matches?
print("\n" + "*** Matches ***")
if len(matches)>0:
	for match in matches:
	 print (match)
# Task 5: Replace the matches
def myreplacement(m):
 if m.group(1):
 return "Superman"
 else:
 return m.group(0)
replaced = regex.sub(myreplacement, subject)
print("\n" + "*** Replacements ***")
print(replaced)
# Task 6: Split
# Start by replacing by something distinctive,
# as in Step 5. Then split.
splits = replaced.split('Superman')
print("\n" + "*** Splits ***")
for split in splits:
	 print (split)

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