in operator for strings

[Heather Coppersmith]

On Tue, 25 May 2004 08:56:19 GMT,
"Moosebumps" <moosebumps at moosebumps.mb> wrote:

> Wouldn't it be cool if you could do this?
> ('hello','test') in 'blah blah hello blah test':

> and it would say if all elements of the list are in the string?

> it would be more efficient and more readable than:

> 'hello' in 'blah blah hello blah test' and 'test' in 'blah blah hello blah
> test'

Untested:

    def string_contains_any_of( targets, the_string ):
        for target in targets:
            if target in the_string:
                return True
        return False

    string_contains_any_of( ('hello', 'test'), 'blah blah blah' )

HTH,
Heather

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