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  1. import re
  2. filenames = ['122 CHC Sep 2017.xlsx', '124 CHC Sep 2017 RFK.xlsx', '124 CHC Sep 2018 Trc.xlsx']
  3. rx = re.compile(r'^\D*(\d+)(?:.*?(\s*[a-zA-Z]+)|.*)\.[a-zA-Z]+$')
  4. print([rx.sub(r'\1\2', x) for x in filenames])
Success #stdin #stdout 0.01s 27712KB
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['122', '124 RFK', '124 Trc']
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Python 3 (python  3.12)
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