Python: Find the substrings within a string

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21. Find Substrings

Write a Python program to find the substrings within a string.

Sample text:
'Python exercises, PHP exercises, C# exercises'
Pattern:
'exercises'

Note: There are two instances of exercises in the input string.

Sample Solution:

Python Code:

import re
text = 'Python exercises, PHP exercises, C# exercises'
pattern = 'exercises'
for match in re.findall(pattern, text):
    print('Found "%s"' % match)
	

Sample Output:

Found "exercises"                                                                                             
Found "exercises"                                                                                             
Found "exercises"   

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