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I have the following phrase:

phrase = 'My love for ict is strict'

I want to find specific phrase from a list.

phrase_list = ['My love', 'ict']

How can i find the exact phrases in phrase list in the phrase string?

I tried:

for p in phrase_list: pattern = re.compile(p) result = pattern.findall(phrase) print(result)

The problem is that this prints:

['My love'] ['ict','ict']

I would only want the occurrence of 'ict' that is an exact match:

['My love'] ['ict']

How can I accomplish this for a large number of phrases?

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  • do you mean you don't want to match the ict in strict ? Commented Oct 19, 2018 at 21:48
  • @TallChuck yes exactly! Commented Oct 19, 2018 at 21:51
  • Duplicate Commented Oct 19, 2018 at 21:52

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You can use \b to match a word break (the boundary between a word and something that is not a word, such as punctuation or a space). Try changing ict to \bict\b

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