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user1328021
user1328021

Reputation: 9840

Checking if string contains a word that is subset of a word in a list

I want to extract bananas-10 from thought1 and 10-bananas from thought2. How would I do this? I am stumped because I'm not sure how to figure out which item in foods was found in the string.

foods = ["bagels", "oranges", "bananas"]
thought1 = "I want some bananas-10"
thought2 = "I want some 10-bananas"
if any(food in thought1 for food in foods):
    # extractedfood = ???

Upvotes: 1

Views: 810

Answers (1)

Christian Tapia
Christian Tapia

Reputation: 34146

I would use this list comoprenhension approach:

text = thought1 + " " + thought2 # To handle both strings
result = [a for a in text.split() for b in foods if b in a]

print result

Output:

['bananas-10', '10-bananas']

Upvotes: 2

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