How do I compare two strings in Perl?
How do I compare two strings in Perl? I am learning Perl, I had this basic question looked it up here on StackOverflow and found no good answer so I thought I would ask. 7 Answers 7
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String comparison in bash. [[: not found
I am trying to compare strings in bash. I already found an answer on how to do it on stackoverflow. In script I am trying, I am using the code submitted by Adam in the mentioned question: #!/bin/bash string=’My string’; if [[ “$string” == *My* ]] then echo “It’s there!”; fi needle=”y s” if [[ … Read more
Good Python modules for fuzzy string comparison? [closed]
Closed. This question is opinion-based. It is not currently accepting answers. Closed 8 years ago. Locked. This question and its answers are locked because the question is off-topic but has historical significance. It is not currently accepting new answers or interactions. I’m looking for a Python module that can do simple fuzzy string comparisons. Specifically, … Read more
How can I do a case insensitive string comparison?
How can I make the line below case insensitive? drUser[“Enrolled”] = (enrolledUsers.FindIndex(x => x.Username == (string)drUser[“Username”]) != -1); I was given some advice earlier today that suggested I use: x.Username.Equals((string)drUser[“Username”], StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase))); the trouble is I can’t get this to work, I’ve tried the line below, this compiles but returns the wrong results, it returns enrolled … Read more
Case-insensitive search
I’m trying to get a case-insensitive search with two strings in JavaScript working. Normally it would be like this: var string=”Stackoverflow is the BEST”; var result= string.search(/best/i); alert(result); The /i flag would be for case-insensitive. But I need to search for a second string; without the flag it works perfect: var string=”Stackoverflow is the BEST”; … Read more
How can I make SQL case sensitive string comparison on MySQL?
I have a function that returns five characters with mixed case. If I do a query on this string it will return the value regardless of case. How can I make MySQL string queries case sensitive? 12 Answers 12
How do I compare version numbers in Python?
I am walking a directory that contains eggs to add those eggs to the sys.path. If there are two versions of the same .egg in the directory, I want to add only the latest one. I have a regular expression r”^(?P<eggName>\w+)-(?P<eggVersion>[\d\.]+)-.+\.egg$ to extract the name and version from the filename. The problem is comparing the … Read more
MySQL query String contains
I’ve been trying to figure out how I can make a query with MySQL that checks if the value (string $haystack ) in a certain column contains certain data (string $needle), like this: SELECT * FROM `table` WHERE `column`.contains(‘{$needle}’) In PHP, the function is called substr($haystack, $needle), so maybe: WHERE substr(`column`, ‘{$needle}’)=1 8 Answers 8
Getting the closest string match
I need a way to compare multiple strings to a test string and return the string that closely resembles it: TEST STRING: THE BROWN FOX JUMPED OVER THE RED COW CHOICE A : THE RED COW JUMPED OVER THE GREEN CHICKEN CHOICE B : THE RED COW JUMPED OVER THE RED COW CHOICE C : … Read more
Checking whether a string starts with XXXX
I would like to know how to check whether a string starts with “hello” in Python. In Bash I usually do: if [[ “$string” =~ ^hello ]]; then do something here fi How do I achieve the same in Python? 5 s 5
