How to match complete words for acronym using regex?

Question

I want to only get complete words from acronyms with ( ) around them.

For example, there is a sentence 'Lung cancer screening (LCS) reduces NSCLC mortality'; ->I want to get 'Lung cancer screening' as a result.

How can I do it with regex?

original question: I want to remove repeated upper alphabets : "HIV acquired immunodeficiency syndrome are at a particularly high risk of cervical cancer" => " acquired immunodeficiency syndrome are at a particularly high risk of cervical cancer"

Show your own effort (code) as properly formatted text in the question. You can use https://regex101.com to play with regular expressions (set flavor to Python). — Michael Butscher, Nov 27 '22 at 08:51

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 27 '22 at 09:01

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import re
s = 'HIV acquired immunodeficiency syndrome are at a particularly high risk of cervical cancer'
print(re.sub(r'([A-Z])', lambda pat:'', s).strip()) # Inline

according to @jensgram answer

answered Nov 27 '22 at 09:01

Mouayad_Al

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Tim Biegeleisen · Answer 2 · 2022-11-27T08:59:29.810

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Assuming you want to target 2 or more capital letters, I would use re.sub here:

inp = "Lung cancer screening (LCS) reduces NSCLC mortality"
output = re.sub(r'\s*(?:\([A-Z]+\)|[A-Z]{2,})\s*', ' ', inp).strip()
print(output)  # Lung cancer screening reduces mortality

edited Nov 27 '22 at 08:59

answered Nov 27 '22 at 08:52

Tim Biegeleisen

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Actually, I changed my question because that was the actual question I wanted to ask. Can you also answer that question, please? – 정다라 Nov 27 '22 at 08:55
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Answer updated, please avoid changing your question after others have already answered. – Tim Biegeleisen Nov 27 '22 at 08:59

How to match complete words for acronym using regex?

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