Wild Card String Comparison

[Timothy Grant]

On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 10:00 PM, W. eWatson <notvalid2 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> Timothy Grant wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 8:49 PM, W. eWatson <notvalid2 at sbcglobal.net>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Is it possible to do a search for a wild card string in another string.
>>> For
>>> example, I'd like to find "v*.dat" in a string called bingo. v must be
>>> matched against only the first character in bingo, and not simply found
>>> somewhere in bingo, as might be the case for "*v*.dat".
>>> --
>>>          Wayne Watson (Watson Adventures, Prop., Nevada City, CA)
>>>
>>>            (121.015 Deg. W, 39.262 Deg. N) GMT-8 hr std. time)
>>>             Obz Site:  39° 15' 7" N, 121° 2' 32" W, 2700 feet
>>>
>>>                   Web Page: <www.speckledwithstars.net/>
>>> --
>>> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
>>>
>> Is this what you're looking for?
>>
> What's this?
> -----------------
>>
>> Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, Jan 17 2008, 19:35:16)
>> [GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Inc. build 5465)] on darwin
>> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>>>
>>>>> x = 'the quick brown fox'
>
> ------------------
>>>>>
>>>>> 'the' in x
>>
>> True
>>>>>
>>>>> 'qui' in x
>>
>> True
>>>>>
>>>>> 'jumped' in x
>>
>> False
>>
>> If that doesn't meet  your needs you may want to look at the re
>> module. But if you can avoid re's your likely better off.
>
> re module??
>>
>>
> There are no wild cards in your examples. * is one wild card symbol?
> begin*end means find "begin" followed by any string of characters until it
> find the three letters "end".
>
> "begin here now but end it" should find "begin here now but end"
> "beginning of the end is the title of a book" should find "beginning of the
> end"
> "b egin but end this now" should find nothing.
>
>
> --
>           Wayne Watson (Watson Adventures, Prop., Nevada City, CA)
>
>             (121.015 Deg. W, 39.262 Deg. N) GMT-8 hr std. time)
>              Obz Site:  39° 15' 7" N, 121° 2' 32" W, 2700 feet
>
>                    Web Page: <www.speckledwithstars.net/>
> --
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
>

you definitely need the re module then.


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tjg. [Timothy Grant]