Django snippets: Regular Expression Replace Template Filter

Regular Expression Replace Template Filter

import re 

from django import template
register = template.Library()

@register.filter
def replace ( string, args ): 
    search  = args.split(args[0])[1]
    replace = args.split(args[0])[2]

    return re.sub( search, replace, string )

This will perform a regular expression search/replace on a string in your template.

{% load replace %} {{ mystring|replace:"/l(u+)pin/m\1gen" }}

If: mystring = 'lupin, luuuuuupin, and luuuuuuuuuuuuupin are lè pwn' then it will return: mugen, muuuuuugen, and muuuuuuuuuuuuugen are lè pwn

The argument is in the following format:

[delim char]regexp search[delim char]regexp replace

Author:: joshua
Posted:: February 28, 2007
Language:: Python
Tags:: filters regex regular-expressions templates
Score:: 4 (after 4 ratings)

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