[vijaynag]

Hi How to compare strings?

for example ..

I want to compare the first 4 characters of str1 with "abcd"

[Rafael T.]

Originally Posted by vijaynag

Hi How to compare strings?

for example ..

I want to compare the first 4 characters of str1 with "abcd"

Sorry, can you explain better your question?

If you want to check if both strings have same value, use this:

x = "abc"
y = "abcd"

res = x==y

print res   

# prints True if they are equal and False if don't, in this case, the result is False

Hope it helps,

Rafael.

[shubhendra]

Maybe it will be better to extract first 4 characters of str1 and then compare them with 'abcd'.
I mean copy the first 4 characters into another string and then you can uses Rafael's code.

[vijaynag]

let me give more details on my question...

l=logs.calls(mode='missed')[0]
phno = l["number"]
strph = str(phno)

if (strph.find("+91") != 0):
print "Indian Number"
else:
print "Other number"

The above code is always executing the else part. i.e everytime it prints other number.
That is the value of strph.find("+91") is always 0.

Can some one help me how to find if the phone number starts with "+919"

Thanks,
Vijay

[sajisoft]

Originally Posted by vijaynag

let me give more details on my question...

l=logs.calls(mode='missed')[0]
phno = l["number"]
strph = str(phno)

if (strph.find("+91") != 0):
print "Indian Number"
else:
print "Other number"

The above code is always executing the else part. i.e everytime it prints other number.
That is the value of strph.find("+91") is always 0.

Can some one help me how to find if the phone number starts with "+919"

Thanks,
Vijay

I love to write source code, to help my friends :P. So , try this

import logs
l=logs.calls(mode='missed')[0]
num = l["number"] //it gives number in unicode
if (num[:3] == "+91" or num[:4] == "0091") :
    print "India Number"
else :
    print "Other number"

Hope it helps u..

Best Regards,
SajiSoft

[Rafael T.]

You can also use startswith():

number = "+9193333"

if number.startswith("+919"):
    print "The number starts with +919"

else:
    print "The number doesn't start with +919"

Hope it helps,

Rafael.