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May 29th, 2009

String search function

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Hi All,

I am using the .search function.

python Syntax (Toggle Plain Text)
strValue="XXX"
strTemp1="YYYXXX"
strTemp= strTemp1.search(strValue)
strValue="XXX"
strTemp1="YYYXXX"
strTemp= strTemp1.search(strValue)

Python is not able to recognise the .search function.
AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'search'

What should I import for this?
Please help!

Last edited by Tekmaven; May 30th, 2009 at 3:11 am. Reason: Code Tags

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Re: String search function

Click to Expand / Collapse Quote originally posted by dinilkarun ...

Python is not able to recognise the .search function.
AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'search'

yes...that would be the response
to find the available methods for string class..try help(string) at the python prompt...
that shud help

Peace...

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Re: String search function

If you want to just find out if one string is contained inside another:

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 strvalue1 in strvalue2

If you want to find out how many occurrences of one string there are in another:

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num = strvalue.count(strvalue2)
num = strvalue.count(strvalue2)

If you want to find the index of the first occurrence of one string in another:

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ind = strvalue1.find(strvalue2)
ind = strvalue1.find(strvalue2)

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