[SOLVED] Python extracting string

Issue

I have a dataframe where one of the columns which is in string format looks like this

    filename
 0  Machine02-2022-01-28_00-21-45.blf.424
 1  Machine02-2022-01-28_00-21-45.blf.425
 2  Machine02-2022-01-28_00-21-45.blf.426
 3  Machine02-2022-01-28_00-21-45.blf.427
 4  Machine02-2022-01-28_00-21-45.blf.428

I want my column to look like this

      filename
 0    2022-01-28 00-21-45 424
 1    2022-01-28 00-21-45 425
 2    2022-01-28 00-21-45 426
 3    2022-01-28 00-21-45 427
 4    2022-01-28 00-21-45 428

I tried this code

df['filename'] = df['filename'].str.extract(r"(\d{4}-\d{1,2}-\d{1,2})_(\d{2}-\d{2}-\d{2}).*\.(\d+)", r"\1 \2 \3")

I am getting this error, unsupported operand type(s) for &: ‘str’ and ‘int’.
Can anyone please tell me where I am doing wrong ?

Solution

please try this:

df['filename'] = df['filename'].str.split('-',1).apply(lambda x:' '.join(x[1].split('_')).replace('.blf.',' '))

Answered By – prahasanam_boi

Answer Checked By – David Goodson (BugsFixing Volunteer)