10. Substitution.ipynb

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    "# Substitution\n",
    "\n",
    "Now, we are going to look at a method which will replace all the **leftmost non-overlapping occurrences** of a pattern in a given string and return the new string as result.\n",
    "\n",
    "### `sub(repl, string[, count=0])`\n",
    "\n",
    "- `repl` is the replacement string which gets substituted in the place of match\n",
    "\n",
    "- `string` is the input text on which substitution takes place.\n",
    "\n",
    "- `count` is an optional argument (default is 0) which specifies the max no. of substitutions that can take place.  0 means there is no limit on substitution count.\n",
    "\n",
    "\n",
    "Let us consider a case where we want to replace all occurances of numbers with a `-` in the given text."
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    "import re"
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    "txt = \"100 cats, 23 dogs, 3 rabbits\""
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    "pattern = re.compile(\"\\d+\")"
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       "'- cats, - dogs, - rabbits'"
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    "pattern.sub(\"-\", txt)"
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    "### `subn(repl, string[, count=0])`\n",
    "\n",
    "- Returns the substituted string as well as the no. of substitutions.\n",
    "\n",
    "- Can be thought of as a utility function over `sub()`."
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    "pattern.subn(\"-\", txt)"
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