Substring search in Python

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Is there a function in Python to search for a string within a string in Python?
Apr 13, 2018 in Python by kaalabilli
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6 answers to this question.

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Use the "in" operator in python"

if "substring" not in string1:
    #continue code
answered Apr 13, 2018 by Nietzsche's daemon
• 4,260 points
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string = "Hello Agnosticdev, I love Tutorials"
substring = "Agnosticdev"
 
# Straight forward approach for Python 2.7 and Python 3.6
# Executes the conditional statement when the substring is found
if substring in string:
	print ("Your substring was found!")
answered Oct 12, 2018 by findingbugs
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+1 vote

You can use the in operator:

if "blah" not in somestring: 
    continue
answered Oct 12, 2018 by abc
+1 vote

If it's just a substring search you can use string.find("substring").

You do have to be a little careful with find, index, and in though, as they are substring searches. In other words, this:

s = "This be a string"
if s.find("is") == -1:
    print "No 'is' here!"
else:
    print "Found 'is' in the string."

It would print Found 'is' in the string. Similarly, if "is" in s: would evaluate to True. This may or may not be what you want.

answered Oct 12, 2018 by rani
+1 vote

str.find() method

The second method is to use the str.find() method. Here, we call the .find() method on the string in which substring is to found. We pass the substring to the find() method and check its return value. If its value is other than -1, the substring was found in the string, otherwise not. The value returned is the index where substring was found.

>>> some_string = "valar morghulis"

>>> some_string.find("morghulis")
6

>>> some_string.find("dohaeris")
-1
answered Oct 12, 2018 by kalpesh
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You can simply use a if statement like you do for checking a condition.
Here also you can check if a substring is present in a string and if it is true continue with the remaining logic
answered Feb 14, 2019 by Shashank
• 1,370 points

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