Series.str.match()
pandas.Series.str.match
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Series.str.match(pat, case=True, flags=0, na=nan, as_indexer=False)
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Deprecated: Find groups in each string in the Series/Index using passed regular expression. If as_indexer=True, 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 : False, by default, gives deprecated behavior better achieved
using str_extract. True return boolean indexer.
Returns: Series/array of boolean values
if as_indexer=True
Series/Index of tuples
if as_indexer=False, default but deprecated
See also
Notes
To extract matched groups, which is the deprecated behavior of match, use str.extract.
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