Function strip_string

Evaluation/PAL-Math/utils/parser.py:62–160

(string)

def strip_string(string):
    string = str(string).strip()
    # linebreaks
    string = string.replace("\n", "")

    # right "."
    string = string.rstrip(".")

    # remove inverse spaces
    string = string.replace("\\!", "")
    string = string.replace("\\ ", "")

    # replace \\ with \
    string = string.replace("\\\\", "\\")
    string = string.replace("\\\\", "\\")

    # replace tfrac and dfrac with frac
    string = string.replace("tfrac", "frac")
    string = string.replace("dfrac", "frac")

    # remove \left and \right
    string = string.replace("\\left", "")
    string = string.replace("\\right", "")

    # Remove unit: miles, dollars if after is not none
    _string = re.sub(r"\\text{.*?}$", "", string).strip()
    if _string != "" and _string != string:
        # print("Warning: unit not removed: '{}' -> '{}'".format(string, _string))
        string = _string

    # Remove circ (degrees)
    string = string.replace("^{\\circ}", "")
    string = string.replace("^\\circ", "")

    # remove dollar signs
    string = string.replace("\\$", "")
    string = string.replace("$", "")

    string = string.replace("\\text", "")
    string = string.replace("x\\in", "")

    # remove percentage
    string = string.replace("\\%", "")
    string = string.replace("\%", "")
    string = string.replace("%", "")

    # " 0." equivalent to " ." and "{0." equivalent to "{." Alternatively, add "0" if "." is the start of the string
    string = string.replace(" .", " 0.")
    string = string.replace("{.", "{0.")

    # cdot
    string = string.replace("\\cdot", "")

    # inf
    string = string.replace("infinity", "\\infty")
    if "\\infty" not in string:
        string = string.replace("inf", "\\infty")
    string = string.replace("+\\inity", "\\infty")