pandas.Series.str.match¶

Series.str.match(*args, **kwargs)[source]¶

Determine if each string starts with a match of a regular expression.

Parameters

patstr: Character sequence or regular expression.
casebool, default True: If True, case sensitive.
flagsint, default 0 (no flags): Regex module flags, e.g. re.IGNORECASE.
nadefault NaN: Fill value for missing values.

Returns

Series/array of boolean values

See also

fullmatch: Stricter matching that requires the entire string to match.
contains: Analogous, but less strict, relying on re.search instead of re.match.
extract: Extract matched groups.

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