Regular Expressions Quick Question

[Paul McGuire]

On Jul 9, 2:24 am, "Rajanikanth Jammalamadaka" <rajanika... at gmail.com>
wrote:
> hi!
>
> Try this:
>
> >>> lis=['t','tes','test','testing']
> >>> [elem for elem in lis if re.compile("^te").search(elem)]
>
> ['tes', 'test', 'testing']
>
> Cheers,
>
> Raj
>
>
>
>
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> On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 12:13 AM, Lamonte Harris <pyth0nc0... 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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Give the built-in string functions a try before resorting to the re
howitzers:

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

-- Paul