Check if a string contains a number

Question

Most of the questions I\'ve found are biased on the fact they\'re looking for letters in their numbers, whereas I\'m looking for numbers in what I\'d like to be a numberless

Answer 1

You can use range with count to check how many times a number appears in the string by checking it against the range:

def count_digit(a):
    sum = 0
    for i in range(10):
        sum += a.count(str(i))
    return sum

ans = count_digit("apple3rh5")
print(ans)

#This print 2

Answer 2

You can use any function, with the str.isdigit function, like this

>>> def hasNumbers(inputString):
...     return any(char.isdigit() for char in inputString)
... 
>>> hasNumbers("I own 1 dog")
True
>>> hasNumbers("I own no dog")
False

Alternatively you can use a Regular Expression, like this

>>> import re
>>> def hasNumbers(inputString):
...     return bool(re.search(r'\d', inputString))
... 
>>> hasNumbers("I own 1 dog")
True
>>> hasNumbers("I own no dog")
False

Answer 3

https://docs.python.org/2/library/re.html

You should better use regular expression. It's much faster.

import re

def f1(string):
    return any(i.isdigit() for i in string)


def f2(string):
    return re.search('\d', string)


# if you compile the regex string first, it's even faster
RE_D = re.compile('\d')
def f3(string):
    return RE_D.search(string)

# Output from iPython
# In [18]: %timeit  f1('assdfgag123')
# 1000000 loops, best of 3: 1.18 µs per loop

# In [19]: %timeit  f2('assdfgag123')
# 1000000 loops, best of 3: 923 ns per loop

# In [20]: %timeit  f3('assdfgag123')
# 1000000 loops, best of 3: 384 ns per loop

Answer 4

alp_num = [x for x in string.split() if x.isalnum() and re.search(r'\d',x) and 
re.search(r'[a-z]',x)]

print(alp_num)

This returns all the string that has both alphabets and numbers in it. isalpha() returns the string with all digits or all characters.