How do you separate numbers from the output of electricLightingUse?

[AryanShahabian]

Dear All,

I am wondering how to separate numbers from the output of electricLightingUse. Apparently, they are part of strings and therefore not separatable. I need to separate them because I am going to analyze/compare many different models; it would be very difficult to separate numbers manually.

Please see the attached screenshot (No data was collected as numbers).

Thank you

[mostapha]

The component only works for Ladybug lists and is not for processing input strings. You can try something like this to get the numbers:

import re
a = re.findall(r":\s+([\d.]+)", x)[0]