Extracting a person's age from unstructured text in Python

Question

I have a dataset of administrative filings that include short biographies. I am trying to extract people\'s ages by using python and some pattern matching. Some example of s

Answer 1

a simple way to find the age of a person from your sentences will be to extract a number with 2 digits:

import re

sentence = 'Steve Jones, Age: 32,'
print(re.findall(r"\b\d{2}\b", 'Steve Jones, Age: 32,')[0])

# output: 32

if you do not want % to be at the end of your number and also you want to have a white space in the begening you could do:

sentence = 'Equity awards granted to Mr. Love in 2010 represented 48% of his total compensation'

match = re.findall(r"\b\d{2}(?!%)[^\d]", sentence)

if match:
    print(re.findall(r"\b\d{2}(?!%)[^\d]", sentence)[0][:2])
else:
    print('no match')

# output: no match

works well also for the previous sentence