Regex search to return a whole word if subword matches-CodePudding

I have a string of words and I would like to return a word if a part of it matches. For e.g.

str = "welcome to the sunshine hotel"

j= re.search(r'sun',str).group(0)
print(j)

the output is : sun

what changes do I make to get the output as 'sunshine' ? Thank you

CodePudding user response：

This approach does not use regexes:

s = "welcome to the sunshine hotel"
j = next((w for w in s.split() if "sun" in w), None)

CodePudding user response：

j= re.search(r'sunshine',str).group(0)

In case you mean anything that starts with sun. Then:

j= re.search(r'sun(.*)',str).group(0)

Of course need to be careful for corner cases such as when followed by a period etc. Some website like this https://regex101.com/ might help you with your regex syntax.