What is the meaning of string locator ', \s*([^\.]*)\s*\.'
=?
I have a dataframe identical to Extract sub-string between 2 special characters from one column of Pandas DataFrame
and want to extract the substring located between ","
and "."
. Thanks to the post answer, a way would be as below:
In [157]: df['Title'] = df.Name.str.extract(r',\s*([^\.]*)\s*\.', expand=False)
In [158]: df
Out[158]:
Name Title
0 Jim, Mr. Jones Mr
1 Sara, Miss. Baker Miss
2 Leila, Mrs. Jacob Mrs
3 Ramu, Master. Kuttan Master
Although I see the outcome being correct, what is the meaning of ',\s*([^\.]*)\s*\.'
? In particular, what is the meaning of '*' and '\'?