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Count the Number of matching characters in a pair of string in Python
We are given two strings. We need to find the count it of the characters in the first string which are also present in a second string.
With set
The set function gives us unique values all the elements in a string. We also use the the & operator which finds the common elements between the two given strings.
Example
strA = 'Tutorials Point'
uniq_strA = set(strA)
# Given String
print("Given String\n",strA)
strB = 'aeio'
uniq_strB = set(strB)
# Given String
print("Search character strings\n",strB)
common_chars = uniq_strA & uniq_strB
print("Count of matching characters are : ",len(common_chars))Output
Running the above code gives us the following result −
Given String Tutorials Point Search character strings aeio Count of matching characters are : 3
With re.search
We use the search function from the re module. We use a count variable and keep incrementing it when the search result is true.
Example
import re
strA = 'Tutorials Point'
# Given String
print("Given String\n",strA)
strB = 'aeio'
# Given String
print("Search character strings\n",strB)
cnt = 0
for i in strA:
if re.search(i, strB):
cnt = cnt + 1
print("Count of matching characters are : ",cnt)Output
Running the above code gives us the following result −
Given String Tutorials Point Search character strings aeio Count of matching characters are : 5
Updated on: 04-Jun-2020
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