match(self, pat, case=True, flags=0, na=None)

Parameters

pat : str

Character sequence or regular expression.

case : bool, default True

If True, case sensitive.

flags : int, default 0 (no flags)

Regex module flags, e.g. re.IGNORECASE.

na : scalar, optional

Fill value for missing values. The default depends on dtype of the array. For object-dtype, numpy.nan is used. For StringDtype , pandas.NA is used.

Returns

Series/Index/array of boolean values

Determine if each string starts with a match of a regular expression.

See Also

contains

Analogous, but less strict, relying on re.search instead of re.match.

extract

Extract matched groups.

fullmatch

Stricter matching that requires the entire string to match.

Examples

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