How to check if letter in a string appear in another string in the same order

Question

I would love to check if the letters from a text appear in another text in the same order.

text    \"Ce\"
name    \"Arsenic\"
Answer   False


for x in te         


        

Answer 1

One way to do it would be to avoid iterating through each letter of the word.

if any(text in name for text in text_collection):
    print(text)

This would check the whole string of text against a string in name. This is assuming that text_collection has more than one entry. Otherwise just use if any(text in name): See the official documentation of any here.