pandas.core.strings.StringMethods.extract

StringMethods.extract(pat, flags=0)

Find groups in each string (from beginning) using passed regular expression

Parameters:

pat : string

Pattern or regular expression

flags : int, default 0 (no flags)

re module flags, e.g. re.IGNORECASE

Returns:

extracted groups : Series (one group) or DataFrame (multiple groups)

Notes

Compare to the string method match, which returns re.match objects.