Question

I have two strings: string1 = ABCDE and string2 = BC.

I hope to write a program returning a T/F value for whether string2 is contained in string1. For the example above, the function should return True. I know it’s something like the %in% function in R, but since I am a newbie in Python, please share your thoughts on this simple question.

Thanks!

Answer 1

You could try this:

def StringTest(string1, string2):
  return string2 in string1

Or outside of a function:

result = string2 in string1

Either of these will return a boolean result.