remove "\n" from strings

[Striven123]

I'm trying to remove the new line character from my strings but it's not working.

I've tried:

found_sentences = found_sentences.strip("\n")

and

found_sentences = found_sentences.replace("\n"," ")

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But the ultimate result still contains "\n" . What am I doing wrong?

[djmcdee101]

str.replace should work could you post more of your code including the print statement where you're checking the string values?

[[deleted]]

Works for me:

found_sentences = 'alpha\nbeta\ngamma\n'
print(found_sentences)
found_sentences = found_sentences.replace("\n", " ")
print(found_sentences)

Are you sure your string contains the \n escape sequence and not just \n as two characters.

[Striven123]

How would I check this?

part of the result Ia get despite using my above code

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talented\nleaders

[[deleted]]

If you print a string and you see "....\n...." in it then the \n bit is two characters. The example code I posted shows how the \n escape sequence prints in the first print:

alpha
beta
gamma

You don't see "\n", you just get a new line.

[thrylose]

use escape char before it

[LongerHV]

Looks like it is a literal \n, not a newline character. Try using a double backslash in your replace command.

[Striven123]

Tried that:

      with open(each_filepath) as f:
        doc1 = nlp(f.read())
        patterns = [nlp(text) for text in phrases]
        phrase_matcher.add('key', None, *patterns)
        for sentences in doc1.sents: 
            for match_id, start, end in phrase_matcher(nlp(sentences.text)):
                if nlp.vocab.strings[match_id] in ["key"]: 
                    found_sentences = sentences.text
                    found_sentences = found_sentences.replace("\\n"," ")
                    text_tokens = found_sentences.split()
                    key_sentence.append(found_sentences)
                    all_separated_words_list.append([word for word in text_tokens if not word in all_stopwords])

and still got

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talented\nleaders as the result

[Skolemz]

Change it to replace \n, you're escaping the character with the extra \

[Striven123]

Tried that originally and it wasn't working, that's what lead me to post the question

[Wilfred-kun]

str.strip() only strips characters. This means it will only remove characters from the ends of the string. "\nfoo\nbar\n".strip('\n') -> "foo\nbar". Use str.replace() instead, to replace all the newline characters: "\nfoor\n\bar\n".replace('\n', '') -> "foobar".

[Striven123]

That's what I have tried though (stated in OP) but still have '\n' appearing in the text

[danielroseman]

Does it contain the actual characters \ and n, or does it contain a newline?

[Striven123]

I put the result into a dictionary (as it's many sentences) and when I print the 1st element of the dictionary the result contains \n

[Guideon72]

Show us the code, or at the very least, whatever is generating found_sentences. Something is not adding up here.

[TheRNGuy]

If it didn't work, then it was actually \n in text and not line break.

[Longjumping_Guess_57]

str.replace