Wild Card String Comparison

[W. eWatson]

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".
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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/>

 

[Sean DiZazzo]

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".
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            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/>

Check:

http://docs.python.org/lib/string-methods.html
http://docs.python.org/lib/module-re.html
http://docs.python.org/lib/module-glob.html
http://docs.python.org/lib/module-fnmatch.html

~Sean

 

[Timothy Grant]

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/>

Is this what you're looking for?

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.
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.

 

[W. eWatson]

Is this what you're looking for?

What's this?
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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.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.


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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/>

 

[W. eWatson]

Check:

http://docs.python.org/lib/string-methods.html
http://docs.python.org/lib/module-re.html
http://docs.python.org/lib/module-glob.html
http://docs.python.org/lib/module-fnmatch.html

~Sean

I'll take a look.

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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/>

 

[Timothy Grant]

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'

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'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.


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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/>

you definitely need the re module then.

 

[W. eWatson]

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".

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Does this session leave any questions:

python
Python 2.4.4c0 (#2, Oct 2 2006, 00:57:46)
[GCC 4.1.2 20060928 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-15)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
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Looks good. re = regular expressions.

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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/>