I'm trying to create pattern that detects certain strings. Basically, the purpose is if detect 'ABCDEF' in a string then return "true". but between 'ABC' and 'DEF', there would be (L+count) or (number) or not like examples below. BTW all examples below return "true". It would be really appreciate if some one can advise how to ignore those combo of number and characters between "ABC" and "DEF"?
ABC(L30)(345)DEF, ABC(L2)(45)DEF, ABCDEF, ABC(L10)DEF, ABC(2)DEF Regex compose thinking path:
#!/usr/bin/python import re r=re.compile("ABC(\(L[0-9]+\)|\([0-9]+\)|)*DEF"); lines = [ "ABC(L30)(345)DEF", "ABC(L2)(45)DEF", "ABC(L30)DEF", "ABC(345)DEF", "ABCDEF", "ABCxyzDEF", "ABC(L)DEF", "ABC(A)DEF", "ABC()DEF", ] for str in lines: if r.match(str): print " match : %s" % str else: print "not match : %s" % str
Output:
match : ABC(L30)(345)DEF match : ABC(L2)(45)DEF match : ABC(L30)DEF match : ABC(345)DEF match : ABCDEF not match : ABCxyzDEF not match : ABC(L)DEF not match : ABC(A)DEF not match : ABC()DEF
def is_in(string_,word_): import re return word_ in [''.join(re.split('\(.+?\)\(.+?\)|\(.+?\)',string_))][0] s = "ABC(L30)(345)DEF, ABC(L2)(45)DEF, ABCDEF, ABC(L10)DEF, ABC(2)DEF" print(is_in(s,'ABCDEF')) True 