On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 10:00 PM, W. eWatson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Timothy Grant wrote: >> >> 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? >> > 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. -- Stand Fast, tjg. [Timothy Grant] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
