Understanding the difference
You need to keep working and cleaning your tweets dataset. You realize that there are some HTML tags present. You need to remove them but keep the inside content as they are useful for analysis.
Let's take a look at this sentence containing an HTML tag:
I want to see that <strong>amazing show</strong> again!.
You know that to get the HTML tag you need to match anything that sits inside angle brackets < >. But the biggest problem is that the closing tag has the same structure. If you match too much, you will end up removing key information. So you need to decide whether to use a greedy or a lazy quantifier.
The string is already loaded as string to your session.
This exercise is part of the course
Regular Expressions in Python
Exercise instructions
- Import the
remodule. - Write a
regexexpression to replace HTML tags with an empty string. - Print out the result.
Hands-on interactive exercise
Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.
# Import re
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# Write a regex to eliminate tags
string_notags = re.____(r"____", "____", ____)
# Print out the result
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