Regular Expressions Quick Question

[Rajanikanth Jammalamadaka]

hi!

Try this:

>>> lis=['t','tes','test','testing']
>>> [elem for elem in lis if re.compile("^te").search(elem)]
['tes', 'test', 'testing']

Cheers,

Raj

On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 12:13 AM, Lamonte Harris <pyth0nc0d3r at gmail.com> wrote:
> Alright, basically I have a list of words in a file and I load each word
> from each line into the array.  Then basically the question is how do I
> check if the input word matches multiple words in the list.
>
> Say someone input "test", how could I check if that word matches these list
> of words:
>
> test
> testing
> tested
>
> Out of the list of
>
> Hello
> blah
> example
> test
> ested
> tested
> testing
>
> I want it to loop then check if the input word I used starts any of the
> words in the list so if I typed 'tes'
>
> Then:
>
> test
> testing
> testing
>
> would be appended to a new array.
>
> I'm unsure how to do this in python.
>
> Thanks in advanced.
>
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