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  1. import re
  2.  
  3. regex = r"^([^;]+);[\r\n]*([^;]+);[\r\n]*([^;]+);"
  4.  
  5. test_str = ("New York City; Iron Man; no superpowers;\n"
  6. 	"Metropolis; Superman; superpowers;\n"
  7. 	"New York City;\n"
  8. 	"Spider-Man;\n"
  9. 	"superpowers;\n"
  10. 	"Gotham; Batman; no superpowers;\n"
  11. 	"New York City; Doctor Strange; superpowers;\n\n")
  12.  
  13. subst = "\\1;\\2;\\3;"
  14.  
  15. # You can manually specify the number of replacements by changing the 4th argument
  16. result = re.sub(regex, subst, test_str, 0, re.MULTILINE | re.DOTALL)
  17.  
  18. if result:
  19.     print (result)
Success #stdin #stdout 0s 23296KB
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New York City; Iron Man; no superpowers;
Metropolis; Superman; superpowers;
New York City;Spider-Man;superpowers;
Gotham; Batman; no superpowers;
New York City; Doctor Strange; superpowers;
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Python (cpython 2.7.16)
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