how to pass regex as function parameter

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I have following python function which takes query which is string as an input but instead of just passing simple string I would like pass it as regex...how can I do it. here query is string which contains alphabet/number/symbol for example "MSEB-1020-MSK-01" and "MSEB-102*-MSK-**"

def function(string: str):

    f_df = df_.loc[
        df_["Company"].str.contains(string)
    ]

Echo · Accepted Answer · 2022-10-06 09:20:04Z

1

Try this:

def function(df, string):

    f_df = df.loc[df["company"].str.contains(query, regex=True)] # `regex = True`, allows you to pass regex expresion

    return f_df  

df_query = function(df_benchmark, "whatever_your_regex_is")

hope this works for you

edited Oct 6, 2022 at 9:20

answered Oct 5, 2022 at 20:39

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OldManSeph Over a year ago

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Echo Over a year ago

that was a funny comment, you could answer and help us both, haha i am not an expert at pandas, i am still learning , and answering questions helps, but sure here is my address 127.0.0.1

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