pandas.core.strings.StringMethods.contains

StringMethods.contains(pat, case=True, flags=0, na=nan, regex=True)

Check whether given pattern is contained in each string in the array

Parameters :

pat : string

Character sequence or regular expression

case : boolean, default True

If True, case sensitive

flags : int, default 0 (no flags)

re module flags, e.g. re.IGNORECASE

na : default NaN, fill value for missing values.

regex : bool, default True

If True use re.search, otherwise use Python in operator

Returns :

Series of boolean values

See also

match
analagous, but stricter, relying on re.match instead of re.search