CODE EXAMPLE FOR PYTHON

pandas check if a string inside a string

import pandas as pd

BabyDataSet = [('Bob', 968), ('Jessica', 155), ('Mary', 77), ('John', 578), ('Mel', 973)]

a = pd.DataFrame(data=BabyDataSet, columns=['Names', 'Births'])

if a['Names'].str.contains('Mel'):
    print ("Mel is there")