"str.contains(part)" or alternatives?

Delaney, Timothy tdelaney at avaya.com
Thu Sep 12 19:09:14 EDT 2002


> From: Stefan Schwarzer [mailto:sschwarzer at sschwarzer.net]
> 
> Thank you (and all others) for their answers. I didn't expect 
> to get so many.
> Btw, Greg, the .count approach is much nicer than ".find != -1".

The .count approach can also be considerably slower - it must scan the
entire string, rather than being able to stop when it first finds a match.

Tim Delaney




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