for each row in dataframe search for string in columns code example

Example 1: get columns containing string

df2 = df.filter(regex='spike')
print(df2)

Example 2: panda search strings in column

# find rows in `df1` which contain "foo" followed by something
df1[df1['col'].str.contains(r'foo(?!$)')]

      col
1  foobar