Regular expression, "except end of string", question.

[David Eppstein]

In article <MPG.1b3a76057bb1198d989681 at news-server.san.rr.com>,
 Derek Basch <dbasch at yahoo.com> wrote:

> string = "WHITE/CLARET/PINK/XL"
> 
> which I need to alter to this format:
> 
> string = "WHITE-CLARET-PINK/XL"

Do you really need regexps for this?

>>> string = "WHITE/CLARET/PINK/XL"
>>> '-'.join(string.split('/',2))
'WHITE-CLARET-PINK/XL'

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David Eppstein                      http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/
Univ. of California, Irvine, School of Information & Computer Science