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Python Regex Expression to remove special characters (,) and (')
#This is code to remove "," and "'" in code
#importing regex module
import re
#Final Storage array
final_name = []
#Defining our regex that will remove commas(,) and apostrophes('), however it will ignore spaces
#This is a test / example code, replace with your own
names = ["Cow","Chick'en", "Crick,et", "Bu'll", "She,e,p"]
#The regex
pattern2 = re.compile(r'[^a-zA-Z0-9\s]+')
#Looping over the values in the names list to remove the characters and substitute them.
for name in names:
result3 = pattern2.sub("", name)
final_name.append(result3)
print(final_name)
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