pandas.Series.str.match

Series.str.match(pat, case=True, flags=0, na=nan, as_indexer=None)

Determine if each string matches a regular expression.

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.

as_indexer

Deprecated since version 0.21.0.

Returns:

Series/array of boolean values

See also

contains

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

extract

extract matched groups