pandas.Series.str.fullmatch#

Series.str.fullmatch(pat, case=True, flags=0, na=None)[source]#

Determine if each string entirely matches a regular expression.

Parameters:

patstr: Character sequence or regular expression.
casebool, default True: If True, case sensitive.
flagsint, default 0 (no flags): Regex module flags, e.g. re.IGNORECASE.
nascalar, optional: Fill value for missing values. The default depends on dtype of the array. For object-dtype, numpy.nan is used. For StringDtype, pandas.NA is used.

Returns:

See also

match: Similar, but also returns True when only a prefix of the string matches the regular expression.
extract: Extract matched groups.

Examples

>>> ser = pd.Series(["cat", "duck", "dove"])
>>> ser.str.fullmatch(r"d.+")
0   False
1    True
2    True
dtype: bool