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Exercise: Find Words Before Punctuation

Martin Breuss

Check if a Python String Contains a Substring Martin Breuss 08:00

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Overview

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Check if a Python String Contains a Substring (Overview) 02:00

Confirm the Presence of a Substring 04:31

Generalize Your Substring Check 04:10

Exercise: Check for a Case-Insensitive Substring 08:00

Learn More Using String Methods 01:49

Use .count() to Get the Number of Occurrences 02:30

Exercise: Count Substring Occurrences 08:00

Use .index() to Get the Location of the Substring 02:35

Exercise: Extract the Email Domain 08:00

Avoid Using .find() to Check for Substrings 05:20

Get to Know Regex for Finding Substrings 01:32

Match a Substring Using re.search() 03:51

Explore a Match Object 03:25

Find All Pattern Matches 03:28

Get All Matches as Match Objects 03:26

Wrap Up Finding Substrings With Regex 01:51

Exercise: Find Words Before Punctuation 08:00

Set Up and Inspect the Data 02:10

Filter DataFrame Rows With .str.contains() 02:03

Use Regular Expressions With pandas 02:23

Check if a Python String Contains a Substring (Quiz) 11:00

Check if a Python String Contains a Substring (Summary) 02:22

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