Name
search
Synopsis
t
.search(pattern
,i
,**search_options
)
Finds the first occurrence of string
pattern
in
t
’s contents not earlier
than index i
and returns a string that is
the index of the occurrence, or an empty string ''
if not found. Option nocase=True
makes the search
case-insensitive; by default, or with an explicit option
nocase=False
, the search is case-sensitive. Option
stop=
j
makes the search
stop at index j
; by default, the search
wraps around to the start of
t
’s contents. When you
need to avoid wrapping, you can use stop=END
.
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