On Jan 22, 2008 9:04 PM, Jeff Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ed: The trouble is that the key will look like this 'Safeway' and the
> description will look like this '11222llxxxSafewayBlahBlahBlah'
>
> I need to see if Safeway is in that description.
Jeff,
Python has VERY strong string manipulation capabilities. Here is what
you need to do.
description="11222llxxxSafewayBlahBlahBlah" #or whatever value you get
account = None
for vendor in d:
if not description.find(vendor) == -1:
account = vendor
break
if account:
s = account
Look up the string object methods in the python documentation.
Definitely plenty of info in there. I used the method find. It will
search for the passed string and return the index of the beginning
character of the first instance that it finds, or -1 if it doesn't
find the substring in the string.
Hope this helps.
Cheers,
Nate L.
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