Get specific word from a sentence if it has a certain character

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I'm trying to get one single word out of a string if it contains a certain character.

I want to do something like this:

string = 'My email is email@example.com and I use it a lot.'

if '@' in string:
    return email

But how can I get python to know exactly where the keyword is and return it's value.

In this case it would return email@example.com

python-3.x python string
4 Answers

Using list comprehension:

emails = [i for i in string.split() if '@' in i]

Output:

['email@example.com']
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You can also use regex for your purposes. In this regex pattern \S* means "Any non-whitespace character". You can test the regular expression here.

import re

string = 'My email is email@example.com and I use it a lot.'

search_word = re.search(r'(\S*)@(\S*)', string)
if search_word:
    print(search_word.group())
else:
    print("Word was not found.")
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Use regular expression to extract your pattern of interest, for example:

import re
email = re.search('\w+@\w+([.]\w+)+', string).group(0)
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match=re.search(r'([^\s]*@[^\s]*)',string)
if match and match.group(0): print(match.group(0))
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