Python | Get matching substrings in string

Last Updated : 25 Jun, 2019

The testing of a single substring in a string has been discussed many times. But sometimes, we have a list of potential substrings and check which ones occur in a target string as a substring. Let’s discuss certain ways in which this task can be performed.

Method #1 : Using list comprehension
Using list comprehension is the naive and brute force method to perform this particular task. In this method, we try to get the matching string using the “in” operator and store it in new list.

# Python3 code to demonstrate working of
# Get matching substrings in string
# Using list comprehension
  
# initializing string 
test_str = "GfG is good website"
  
# initializing potential substrings
test_list = ["GfG", "site", "CS", "Geeks", "Tutorial" ]
  
# printing original string 
print("The original string is : " + test_str)
  
# printing potential strings list
print("The original list is : " + str(test_list))
  
# using list comprehension
# Get matching substrings in string
res = [sub for sub in test_list if sub in test_str]
  
# printing result 
print("The list of found substrings : " + str(res))

Output :

The original string is : GfG is good website
The original list is : ['GfG', 'site', 'CS', 'Geeks', 'Tutorial']
The list of found substrings : ['GfG', 'site']

Method #2 : Using filter() + lambda
This task can also be performed using the filter function which performs the task of filtering out the resultant strings that is checked for existence using the lambda function.

# Python3 code to demonstrate working of
# Get matching substrings in string
# Using lambda and filter()
  
# initializing string 
test_str = "GfG is good website"
  
# initializing potential substrings
test_list = ["GfG", "site", "CS", "Geeks", "Tutorial" ]
  
# printing original string 
print("The original string is : " + test_str)
  
# printing potential strings list
print("The original list is : " + str(test_list))
  
# using lambda and filter()
# Get matching substrings in string
res = list(filter(lambda x:  x in test_str, test_list))
  
# printing result 
print("The list of found substrings : " + str(res))

Output :

The original string is : GfG is good website
The original list is : ['GfG', 'site', 'CS', 'Geeks', 'Tutorial']
The list of found substrings : ['GfG', 'site']

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