I have a large string and a list of search strings and want to build a boolean list indicating whether or not each of the search strings exists in the large string. What is the fastest way to do this in Python?
Below is a toy example using a naive approach, but I think it's likely there's a more efficient way of doing this.
e.g. the example below should return [1, 1, 0] since both "hello" and "world" exist in the test string.
def check_strings(search_list, input):
output = []
for s in search_list:
if input.find(s) > -1:
output.append(1)
else:
output.append(0)
return output
search_strings = ["hello", "world", "goodbye"]
test_string = "hello world"
print(check_strings(search_strings, test_string))