String exact match

Question

I have a string in which the word \"LOCAL\" occurs many times. I used the find() function to search for this word but it returns another word \"Locally\" as wel

Answer 1

Using Pyparsing:

import pyparsing as pp

def search_exact_word_in_string(phrase, text):

    rule = pp.ZeroOrMore(pp.Keyword(phrase))  # pp.Keyword() is case sensitive
    for t, s, e in rule.scanString(text):
      if t:
        return t
    return False

text = "Local locally locale"
search = "Local"
print(search_exact_word_in_string(search, text))

Which Yields:

['Local']