On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 8:49 PM, W. eWatson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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?
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. -- Stand Fast, tjg. [Timothy Grant] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
