What's the neatest and/or most efficient way of testing if one of a
set of strings (contained in a dictionary, list or similar) is a
sub-string of a given string?
I.e. I have a string delivered into my program and I want to see if
any of a set of strings is a substring of the string I have been
given. It's quite OK to stop at the first one found. Ideally the
strings being searched through will be the keys of a dictionary but
this isn't a necessity, they can just be in a list if it could be done
more efficiently using a list.
Is this the best one can do (ignoring the likelihood that I've got
some syntax wrong) :-
# l is the list
# str is the incoming string
answer = ""
for x in l:
if str.find(x) < 0:
continue
answer = x
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Chris Green
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