Search String for Word

[digitalorganics@gmail.com]

What's the best way to search a string for a particular word and get a
booleen value indicating whether it exists in the string or not?
Thanks...

[Tim Chase]

Re: Search String for Word

> What's the best way to search a string for a particular word and get a[color=blue]
> booleen value indicating whether it exists in the string or not?[/color]
[color=blue][color=green][color=darkred]
>>> substring = 'foo'
>>> targetstring = 'blah foo bar'
>>> substring in targetstring[/color][/color][/color]
True[color=blue][color=green][color=darkred]
>>> if substring in targetstring: print 'yup'[/color][/color][/color]
yup

http://docs.python.org/lib/typesseq.html

-tkc

[digitalorganics@gmail.com]

Re: Search String for Word

I thought I'd seen that somewhere! Thanks Tim. I was previously using
re.search(subst ring, targetstring).

Tim Chase wrote:[color=blue][color=green]
> > What's the best way to search a string for a particular word and get a
> > booleen value indicating whether it exists in the string or not?[/color]
>[color=green][color=darkred]
> >>> substring = 'foo'
> >>> targetstring = 'blah foo bar'
> >>> substring in targetstring[/color][/color]
> True[color=green][color=darkred]
> >>> if substring in targetstring: print 'yup'[/color][/color]
> yup
>
> http://docs.python.org/lib/typesseq.html
>
> -tkc[/color]

[digitalorganics@gmail.com]

Re: Search String for Word

And what if I want to search for an item in a tuple, is there a
similarly easy method?

Tim Chase wrote:[color=blue][color=green]
> > What's the best way to search a string for a particular word and get a
> > booleen value indicating whether it exists in the string or not?[/color]
>[color=green][color=darkred]
> >>> substring = 'foo'
> >>> targetstring = 'blah foo bar'
> >>> substring in targetstring[/color][/color]
> True[color=green][color=darkred]
> >>> if substring in targetstring: print 'yup'[/color][/color]
> yup
>
> http://docs.python.org/lib/typesseq.html
>
> -tkc[/color]

[Tim Williams]

Re: Search String for Word

On 26 Jun 2006 08:24:54 -0700, digitalorganics @gmail.com
<digitalorganic s@gmail.com> wrote:[color=blue]
> And what if I want to search for an item in a tuple, is there a
> similarly easy method?
>
> Tim Chase wrote:[color=green][color=darkred]
> > > What's the best way to search a string for a particular word and get a
> > > booleen value indicating whether it exists in the string or not?[/color]
> >[color=darkred]
> > >>> substring = 'foo'
> > >>> targetstring = 'blah foo bar'
> > >>> substring in targetstring[/color]
> > True[color=darkred]
> > >>> if substring in targetstring: print 'yup'[/color]
> > yup[/color][/color]
[color=blue][color=green][color=darkred]
>>> t = ('a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e')
>>> a = 'a'
>>> a in t[/color][/color][/color]
True[color=blue][color=green][color=darkred]
>>> y = 'y'
>>> y in t[/color][/color][/color]
False
[color=blue][color=green][color=darkred]
>>> t = ('test', 'black', 'white')
>>> a = 'a'
>>> [i for i in t if a in i][/color][/color][/color]
['black'][color=blue][color=green][color=darkred]
>>>[/color][/color][/color]

HTH :)

[digitalorganics@gmail.com]

Re: Search String for Word

Thank you thank you!

Tim Williams wrote:[color=blue]
> On 26 Jun 2006 08:24:54 -0700, digitalorganics @gmail.com
> <digitalorganic s@gmail.com> wrote:[color=green]
> > And what if I want to search for an item in a tuple, is there a
> > similarly easy method?
> >
> > Tim Chase wrote:[color=darkred]
> > > > What's the best way to search a string for a particular word and get a
> > > > booleen value indicating whether it exists in the string or not?
> > >
> > > >>> substring = 'foo'
> > > >>> targetstring = 'blah foo bar'
> > > >>> substring in targetstring
> > > True
> > > >>> if substring in targetstring: print 'yup'
> > > yup[/color][/color]
>[color=green][color=darkred]
> >>> t = ('a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e')
> >>> a = 'a'
> >>> a in t[/color][/color]
> True[color=green][color=darkred]
> >>> y = 'y'
> >>> y in t[/color][/color]
> False
>[color=green][color=darkred]
> >>> t = ('test', 'black', 'white')
> >>> a = 'a'
> >>> [i for i in t if a in i][/color][/color]
> ['black'][color=green][color=darkred]
> >>>[/color][/color]
>
> HTH :)[/color]