How to find a string inside of a string space insensitive?

Question

For example if a string contains:

odfsdlkfn dskfThe Moonaosjfsl dflkfn

How can I check to see if it contains "The Moon"?

What I have currently been doing is (but does not work):

if string.find("The Moon")!=-1:
    doSomething

Is there anyway to do this?

Thanks!

@DevinGP when you say `(but does not work)` show us how its not working. It should work — Bharath M Shetty, Dec 23 '17 at 17:07

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 23 '17 at 17:01

1

Simple:

string = 'odfsdlkfn dskfThe Moonaosjfsl dflkfn'
if 'The Moon' in string:
    dosomething

answered Dec 23 '17 at 17:01

Alireza

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 23 '17 at 17:04

0

you could use regular expressions:

import re
text = "odfsdlkfn dskfThe Moonaosjfsl dflkfn"
if re.find("The Moon", text):
    ...

and in this case, you could ingore casing with re(pattern, text, re.IGNORECASE) if needed.

answered Dec 23 '17 at 17:04

adrpino

1

You might also want to explain when regex would be preferred over a simple `in`/`not in` check... – cs95 Dec 23 '17 at 17:22

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