如何使用python正则表达式查找和替换句子中出现的第n个单词？

Question

仅使用python正则表达式，如何查找和替换句子中出现的第n个单词？ 例如：

str = 'cat goose  mouse horse pig cat cow'
new_str = re.sub(r'cat', r'Bull', str)
new_str = re.sub(r'cat', r'Bull', str, 1)
new_str = re.sub(r'cat', r'Bull', str, 2)

我有一个句子上面的单词'猫'出现在句子中两次。我想把第二次出现的“猫”改成“牛”，不去碰第一个“猫”字。我的最后一句话是： “猫鹅鼠马猪牛”。在我上面的代码中，我试了3次都没有得到我想要的。

Answer 1

我使用simple函数，它列出所有出现的情况，选择第n个出现的位置，并使用它将原始字符串拆分为两个子字符串。然后它替换第二个子字符串中的第一个匹配项，并将子字符串连接回新字符串：

import re

def replacenth(string, sub, wanted, n)
    where = [m.start() for m in re.finditer(sub, string)][n-1]
    before = string[:where]
    after = string[where:]
    after.replace(sub, wanted, 1)
    newString = before + after
    print newString

对于这些变量：

string = 'ababababababababab'
sub = 'ab'
wanted = 'CD'
n = 5

输出：

ababababCDabababab

注：

The where variable actually is a list of matches' positions, where you pick up the nth one. But list item index starts with 0 usually, not with 1. Therefore there is a n-1 index and n variable is the actual nth substring. My example finds 5th string. If you use n index and want to find 5th position, you'll need n to be 4. Which you use usually depends on the function, which generates our n.

This should be the simplest way, but it isn't regex only as you originally wanted.

Sources and some links in addition:

• where construction: Find all occurrences of a substring in Python
• string splitting: https://www.daniweb.com/programming/software-development/threads/452362/replace-nth-occurrence-of-any-sub-string-in-a-string
• similar question: Find the nth occurrence of substring in a string