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Like function in Python

Apr 24th, 2008

Is there something similar to a LIKE function in python? What I'm trying to accomplish is to search inside a string, if it finds specific criteria it sets another variable to a specific value.

In other scripting languages I have used a LIKE function to do this but I can't find anything comparable in Python.

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Re: Like function in Python

Apr 24th, 2008

Check out regular expressions in the re module.

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Re: Like function in Python

Apr 24th, 2008

The simplest functions to search a string are find() and index().

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Re: Like function in Python

Apr 24th, 2008

what functions in other languages did you use?

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Re: Like function in Python

Apr 24th, 2008

If it's like the like() function in VB, then you can do it with module re, which does have wildcard and characterlist patterns.

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Re: Like function in Python

Apr 24th, 2008

 Help with Code Tags 
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>>> string = "A simple example string."
>>> if 'example' in string:
	print 'the word \'%s\' is in: "%s"' % ('example', string)
 
 
the word 'example' is in: "A simple example string."
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>>> string = "A simple example string."
>>> if 'example' in string:
	print 'the word \'%s\' is in: "%s"' % ('example', string)

	
the word 'example' is in: "A simple example string."
>>>