python find exact word or phrase in string

Question

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?

do you mean you don't want to match the `ict` in `strict` ? – TallChuck Oct 19 '18 at 21:48 — TallChuck, Oct 19 '18 at 21:48
[Duplicate](https://stackoverflow.com/a/4173810/10484131) – Felix Oct 19 '18 at 21:52 — Felix, Oct 19 '18 at 21:52

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 19 '18 at 21:49

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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

answered Oct 19 '18 at 21:49

TallChuck

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