Solution Exercise 62: python program which extract all digit within a given string

Exercise 62

Write a Python algorithm which determines the list of digits within a given string 's'. Example: if s = "Python3.8 is more powerful than Python2.7 " the program must returns the list : ['3', '8', '2', '7']

Solution

First method:

def extract_digits(s):
    digits = []
    for char in s:
        if char.isdigit():
            digits.append(char)
    return digits

#To use this function, you can call it with a string argument:
s = "Python3.8 is more powerful than Python2.7"
digits = extract_digits(s)
print(digits) # Outputs ['3', '8', '2', '7']

Second method: by using the regular expression
You can use a regular expression to extract all the digits from the string, and then convert them to a list. Here's the Python program that does this:

import re

def extract_digits(s):
    digit_pattern = re.compile(r'\d')
    digits = digit_pattern.findall(s)
    return digits

# To use this function, you can call it with a string argument:
s = "Python3.8 is more powerful than Python2.7"
digits = extract_digits(s)
print(digits) # Outputs ['3', '8', '2', '7']

Younes Derfoufi
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