Regex to match all character groups in a string

Question

I need a regex to match the groups of characters in a string. For example this is-a@beautiful^day. Should result in the following list: this, is, a, beautiful, day. As a mention I don't know how long the string is or by what characters the words are separated.

Any ideas? I have no clue how to build a regex for this.

So you want to split the string using any character which is not a letter? (What about digits?) — npinti, Mar 14 '17 at 13:48
Have you [read the docs?](https://docs.python.org/3/library/re.html) — Wayne Werner, Mar 14 '17 at 13:49
no digits included, only letters sepparated by any other characters except digits — jojuk, Mar 14 '17 at 13:49
You do not need `regex` for that. You could simply do: `''.join(x if x.isalpha() else ' ' for x in s).split()` — Ma0, Mar 14 '17 at 13:53

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 14 '17 at 13:54

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If you want find all groups of letters:

import re

string = "this is-a@beautiful^day"
list = re.findall(r'[A-Za-z]+', string)
print list

['this', 'is', 'a', 'beautiful', 'day']

answered Mar 14 '17 at 13:54

Dmitry

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