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Regex python - find match items on list that have the same digit between the second character "_" to character "."

I have the following list :
list_paths=imgs/foldeer/img_ABC_21389_1.tif.tif,
imgs/foldeer/img_ABC_15431_10.tif.tif,
imgs/foldeer/img_GHC_561321_2.tif.tif,
imgs_foldeer/img_BCL_871125_21.tif.tif,
...
I want to be able to run a for loop to match string with specific number,which is the number between the second occurance of "_" to the ".tif.tif", for example, when number is 1, the string to be matched is "imgs/foldeer/img_ABC_21389_1.tif.tif" , for number 2, the match string will be "imgs/foldeer/img_GHC_561321_2.tif.tif".
For that, I wanted to use regex expression. Based on this answer, I have tested this regex expression on Regex101:
[^\r\n_]+\.[^\r\n_]+\_([0-9])
But this doesn't match anything, and also doesn't make sure that it will take the exact number, so if number is 1, it might also select items with number 10 .
My end goal is to be able to match items in the list that have the request number between the 2nd occurrence of "_" to the first occirance of ".tif" , using regex expression, looking for help with the regex expression.
EDIT: The output should be the whole path and not only the number.

Your pattern [^\r\n_]+\.[^\r\n_]+\_([0-9]) does not match anything, because you are matching an underscore \_ (note that you don't have to escape it) after matching a dot, and that does not occur in the example data.
Then you want to match a digit, but the available digits only occur before any of the dots.
In your question, the numbers that you are referring to are after the 3rd occurrence of the _
What you could do to get the path(s) is to make the number a variable for the number you want to find:
^\S*?/(?:[^\s_/]+_){3}\d+\.tif\b[^\s/]*$
Explanation
\S*? Match optional non whitespace characters, as few as possible
/ Match literally
(?:[^\s_/]+_){3} Match 3 times (non consecutive) _
\d+ Match 1+ digits
\.tif\b[^\s/]* Match .tif followed by any char except /
$ End of string
See a regex demo and a Python demo.
Example using a list comprehension to return all paths for the given number:
import re
number = 10
pattern = rf"^\S*?/(?:[^\s_/]+_){{3}}{number}\.tif\b[^\s/]*$"
list_paths = [
"imgs/foldeer/img_ABC_21389_1.tif.tif",
"imgs/foldeer/img_ABC_15431_10.tif.tif",
"imgs/foldeer/img_GHC_561321_2.tif.tif",
"imgs_foldeer/img_BCL_871125_21.tif.tif",
"imgs_foldeer/img_BCL_871125_21.png.tif"
]
res = [lp for lp in list_paths if re.search(pattern, lp)]
print(res)
Output
['imgs/foldeer/img_ABC_15431_10.tif.tif']

I'll show you something working and equally ugly as regex which I hate:
data = ["imgs/foldeer/img_ABC_21389_1.tif.tif",
"imgs/foldeer/img_ABC_21389_1.tif.tif",
"imgs/foldeer/img_ABC_15431_10.tif.tif",
"imgs/foldeer/img_GHC_561321_2.tif.tif",
"imgs_foldeer/img_BCL_871125_21.tif.tif"]
numbers = [int(x.split("_",3)[-1].split(".")[0]) for x in data]
First split gives ".tif.tif"
extract the last element
split again by the dot this time, take the first element (thats your number as a string), cast it to int
Please keep in mind it's gonna work only for the format you provided, no flexibility at all in this solution (on the other hand regex doesn't give any neither)

without regex if allowed.
import re
s= 'imgs/foldeer/img_ABC_15431_10.tif.tif'
last =s[s.rindex('_')+1:]
print(re.findall(r'\d+', last)[0])
Gives #
10

[0-9]*(?=\.tif\.tif)
This regex expression uses a lookahead to capture the last set of numbers (what you're looking for)

Try this:
import re
s = '''imgs/foldeer/img_ABC_21389_1.tif.tif
imgs/foldeer/img_ABC_15431_10.tif.tif
imgs/foldeer/img_GHC_561321_2.tif.tif
imgs_foldeer/img_BCL_871125_21.tif.tif'''
number = 1
res1 = re.findall(f".*_{number}\.tif.*", s)
number = 21
res21 = re.findall(f".*_{number}\.tif.*", s)
print(res1)
print(res21)
Results
['imgs/foldeer/img_ABC_21389_1.tif.tif']
['imgs_foldeer/img_BCL_871125_21.tif.tif']

Extracting two strings from between two characters. Why doesn't my regex match and how can I improve it?

I'm learning about regular expressions and I to want extract a string from a text that has the following characteristic:
It always begins with the letter C, in either lowercase or
uppercase, which is then followed by a number of hexadecimal
characters (meaning it can contain the letters A to F and numbers
from 1 to 9, with no zeros included).
After those hexadecimal
characters comes a letter P, also either in lowercase or uppercase
And then some more hexadecimal characters (again, excluding 0).
Meaning I want to capture the strings that come in between the letters C and P as well as the string that comes after the letter P and concatenate them into a single string, while discarding the letters C and P
Examples of valid strings would be:
c45AFP2
CAPF
c56Bp26
CA6C22pAAA
For the above examples what I want would be to extract the following, in the same order:
45AF2 # Original string: c45AFP2
AF # Original string: CAPF
56B26 # Original string: c56Bp26
A6C22AAA # Original string: CA6C22pAAA
Examples of invalid strings would be:
BCA6C22pAAA # It doesn't begin with C
c56Bp # There aren't any characters after P
c45AF0P2 # Contains a zero
I'm using python and I want a regex to extract the two strings that come both in between the characters C and P as well as after P
So far I've come up with this:
(?<=\A[cC])[a-fA-F1-9]*(?<=[pP])[a-fA-F1-9]*
A breakdown would be:
(?<=\A[cC]) Positive lookbehind assertion. Asserts that what comes before the regex parser’s current position must match [cC] and that [cC] must be at the beginning of the string
[a-fA-F1-9]* Matches a single character in the list between zero and unlimited times
(?<=[pP]) Positive lookbehind assertion. Asserts that what comes before the regex parser’s current position must match [pP]
[a-fA-F1-9]* Matches a single character in the list between zero and unlimited times
But with the above regex I can't match any of the strings!
When I insert a | in between (?<=[cC])[a-fA-F1-9]* and (?<=[pP])[a-fA-F1-9]* it works.
Meaning the below regex works:
(?<=[cC])[a-fA-F1-9]*|(?<=[pP])[a-fA-F1-9]*
I know that | means that it should match at most one of the specified regex expressions. But it's non greedy and it returns the first match that it finds. The remaining expressions aren’t tested, right?
But using | means the string BCA6C22pAAA is a partial match to AAA since it comes after P, even though the first assertion isn't true, since it doesn't begin with a C.
That shouldn't be the case. I want it to only match if all conditions explained in the beginning are true.
Could someone explain to me why my first attempt doesn't produces the result I want? Also, how can I improve my regex?
I still need it to:
Not be a match if the string contains the number 0
Only be a match if ALL conditions are met
Thank you

To match both groups before and after P or p
(?<=^[Cc])[1-9a-fA-F]+(?=[Pp]([1-9a-fA-F]+$))
(?<=^[Cc]) - Positive Lookbehind. Must match a case insensitive C or c at the start of the line
[1-9a-fA-F]+ - Matches hexadecimal characters one or more times
(?=[Pp] - Positive Lookahead for case insensitive p or P
([1-9a-fA-F]+$) - Cature group for one or more hexadecimal characters following the pP
View Demo

Your main problem is you're using a look behind (?<=[pP]) for something ahead, which will never work: You need a look ahead (?=...).
Also, the final quantifier should be + not * because you require at least one trailing character after the p.
The final mistake is that you're not capturing anything, you're only matching, so put what you want to capture inside brackets, which also means you can remove all look arounds.
If you use the case insensitive flag, it makes the regex much smaller and easier to read.
A working regex that captures the 2 hex parts in groups 1 and 2 is:
(?i)^c([a-f1-9]*)p([a-f1-9]+)
See live demo.
Unless you need to use \A, prefer ^ (start of input) over \A (start of all input in multi line scenario) because ^ easier to read and \A won't match every line, which is what many situations and tools expect. I've used ^.

Using Regex to move some letter of a string to a new location in the same string in a Series of strings in python

I have a list of 4000 strings. The naming convention needs to be changed for each string and I do not want to go through and edit each one individually.
The list looks like this:
data = list()
data = ['V2-FG2110-EMA-COMPRESSION',
'V2-FG2110-SA-COMPRESSION',
'V2-FG2110-UMA-COMPRESSION',
'V2-FG2120-EMA-DISTRIBUTION',
'V2-FG2120-SA-DISTRIBUTION',
'V2-FG2120-UMA-DISTRIBUTION',
'V2-FG2140-EMA-HEATING',
'V2-FG2140-SA-HEATING',
'V2-FG2140-UMA-HEATING',
'V2-FG2150-EMA-COOLING',
'V2-FG2150-SA-COOLING',
'V2-FG2150-UMA-COOLING',
'V2-FG2160-EMA-TEMPERATURE CONTROL']
I need all each 'SA' 'UMA' and 'EMA' to be moved to before the -FG.
Desired output is:
V2-EMA-FG2110-Compression
V2-SA-FG2110-Compression
V2-UMA-FG2110-Compression
...
The V2-FG2 does not change throughout the list so I have started there and I tried re.sub and re.search but I am pretty new to python so I have gotten a mess of different results. Any help is appreciated.

You can rearrange the strings.
new_list = []
for word in data:
arr = word.split('-')
new_word = '%s-%s-%s-%s'% (arr[0], arr[2], arr[1], arr[3])
new_list.append(new_word)

You can replace matches of the following regular expression with the contents of capture group 1:
(?<=^[A-Z]\d)(?=.*(-(?:EMA|SA|UMA))(?=-))|-(?:EMA|SA|UMA)(?=-)
Demo
The regular expression can be broken down as follows.
(?<=^[A-Z]\d) # current string position must be preceded by a capital
# letter followed by a digit at the start of the string
(?= # begin a positive lookahead
.* # match >= 0 chars other than a line terminator
(-(?:EMA|SA|UMA)) # match a hyphen followed by one of the three strings
# and save to capture group 1
(?=-) # the next char must be a hyphen
) # end positive lookahead
| # or
-(?:EMA|SA|UMA) # match a hyphen followed by one of the three strings
(?=-) # the next character must be a hyphen
(?=-) is a positive lookahead.
Evidently this may not work for versions of Python prior to 3.5, because the match in the second part of the alternation does not assign a value to capture group 1: "Before Python 3.5, backreferences to failed capture groups in Python re.sub were not populated with an empty string.. This quote is from
#WiktorStribiżew 's answer at the link. For what it's worth I confirmed that Ruby has the same behaviour ("V2-FG2110-EMA-COMPRESSION".gsub(rgx,'\1') #=> "V2-EMA-FG2110-COMPRESSION").
One could of course instead replace matches of (?<=^[A-Z]\d)(-[A-Z]{2}\d{4})(-(?:EMA|SA|UMA))(?=-)) with $2 + $1. That's probably more sensible even if it's less interesting.

Regex for string that has 5 numbers or IND/5numbers

I am trying to build a regex to match 5 digit numbers or those 5 digit numbers preceded by IND/
10223 match to return 10223
IND/10110 match to return 10110
ID is 11233 match to return 11233
Ref is:10223 match to return 10223
Ref is: th10223 not match
SBI12234 not match
MRF/10234 not match
RBI/10229 not match
I have used the foll. Regex which selects the 5 digit correctly using word boundary concept. But not sure how to allow IND and not allow anything else like MRF, etc:
/b/d{5}/b
If I put (IND)? At beginning of regex then it won't help. Any hints?

Use a look behind:
(?<=^IND\/|^ID is |^)\d{5}\b
See live demo.
Because the look behind doesn’t consume any input, the entire match is your target number (ie there’s no need to use a group).

Variable length lookbehind is not supported by python, use alternation instead:
(?:(?<=IND/| is[: ])\d{5}|^\d{5})(?!\d)
Demo

This should work: (?<=IND/|\s|^)(\d{5})(?=\s|$) .

Try this: (?:IND\/|ID is |^)\b(\d{5})\b
Explanation:
(?: ALLOWED TEXT): A non-capture group with all allowed segments inside. In your example, IND\/ for "IND/", ID is for "ID is ...", and ^ for the beginning of the string (in case of only the number / no text at start: 12345).
\b(\d{5})\b: Your existing pattern w/ capture group for 5-digit number

I feel like this will need some logic to it. The regex can find the 5 digits, but maybe a second regex pattern to find IND, then join them together if need be. Not sure if you are using Python, .Net, or Java, but should be doable

Limiting regex length

I'm having an issue in python creating a regex to get each occurance that matches a regex.
I have this code that I made that I need help with.
strToSearch= "1A851B 1C331 1A3X1 1N111 1A3 and a whole lot of random other words."
print(re.findall('\d{1}[A-Z]{1}\d{3}', strToSearch.upper())) #1C331, 1N111
print(re.findall('\d{1}[A-Z]{1}\d{1}[X]\d{1}', strToSearch.upper())) #1A3X1
print(re.findall('\d{1}[A-Z]{1}\d{3}[A-Z]{1}', strToSearch.upper())) #1A851B
print(re.findall('\d{1}[A-Z]{1}\d{1}', strToSearch.upper())) #1A3
>['1A851', '1C331', '1N111']
>['1A3X1']
>['1A851B']
>['1A8', '1C3', '1A3', '1N1', '1A3']
As you can see it returns "1A851" in the first one, which I don't want it to. How do I keep it from showing in the first regex? Some things for you to know is it may appear in the string like " words words 1A851B?" so I need to keep the punctuation from being grabbed.
Also how can I combine these into one regex. Essentially my end goal is to run an if statement in python similar to the pseudo code below.
lstResults = []
strToSearch= " Alot of 1N1X1 people like to eat 3C191 cheese and I'm a 1A831B aka 1A8."
lstResults = re.findall('<REGEX HERE>', strToSearch)
for r in lstResults:
print(r)
And the desired output would be
1N1X1
3C191
1A831B
1A8

With single regex pattern:
strToSearch= " Alot of 1N1X1 people like to eat 3C191 cheese and I'm a 1A831B aka 1A8."
lstResults = [i[0] for i in re.findall(r'(\d[A-Z]\d{1,3}(X\d|[A-Z])?)', strToSearch)]
print(lstResults)
The output:
['1N1X1', '3C191', '1A831B', '1A8']

Yo may use word boundaries:
\b\d{1}[A-Z]{1}\d{3}\b
See demo
For the combination, it is unclear the criterium according to which you consider a word "random word", but you can use something like this:
[A-Z\d]*\d[A-Z\d]*[A-Z][A-Z\d]*
This is a word that contains at least a digit and at least a non-digit character. See demo.
Or maybe you can use:
\b\d[A-Z\d]*[A-Z][A-Z\d]*
dor a word that starts with a digit and contains at least a non-digit character. See demo.
Or if you want to combine exactly those regex, use.
\b\d[A-Z]\d(X\d|\d{2}[A-Z]?)?\b
See the final demo.

If you want to find "words" where there are both digits and letters mixed, the easiest is to use the word-boundary operator, \b; but notice that you need to use r'' strings / escape the \ in the code (which you would need to do for the \d anyway in future Python versions). To match any sequence of alphanumeric characters separated by word boundary, you could use
r'\b[0-9A-Z]+\b'
However, this wouldn't yet guarantee that there is at least one number and at least one letter. For that we will use positive zero-width lookahead assertion (?= ) which means that the whole regex matches only if the contained pattern matches at that point. We need 2 of them: one ensures that there is at least one digit and one that there is at least one letter:
>>> p = r'\b(?=[0-9A-Z]*[0-9])(?=[0-9A-Z]*[A-Z])[0-9A-Z]+\b'
>>> re.findall(p, '1A A1 32 AA 1A123B')
['1A', 'A1', '1A123B']
This will now match everything including 33333A or AAAAAAAAAA3A for as long as there is at least one digit and one letter. However if the pattern will always start with a digit and always contain a letter, it becomes slightly easier, for example:
>>> p = r'\b\d+[A-Z][0-9A-Z]*\b'
>>> re.findall(p, '1A A1 32 AA 1A123B')
['1A', '1A123B']
i.e. A1 didn't match because it doesn't start with a digit.