On 07/25/2018 07:43 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Wed, Jul 25, 2018 at 06:50:56PM -0500, Jim wrote:
[...]
I need to check and see if the letters 'OFHCMLIP' are one of the items
in the list but there is no way to tell in what order the letters will
appear. So I can't just search for the string 'OFHCMLIP'. I just need to
locate any strings that are made up of those letters no matter their order.
data = ['MIBMMCCO', 'YOWHHOY', 'ABCDEFG', 'HCMLIPOF', 'TUVWXYZ']
target = sorted('OFHCMLIP')
for pos, item in enumerate(data):
if sorted(item) == target:
print("found", pos, item)
break
Stephen,
Perfect, thank you. I did remove the break because I thought I would
get more than one hit. I got 196, more that I hoped for but now I have a
better idea of what I am working with.
Regards, Jim
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