contains

Written by Balazs Halasy, 02/05/2004 Updated 04/14/2005 by Balazs Halasy

Summary

Checks if a string contains a specific element.

Usage

input|contains( sequence )

Parameters

Name	Type	Description	Required
sequence	string	The string that should be matched.	Yes.

Returns

TRUE if there is a match, FALSE otherwise.

Description

This operator checks if the input string contains a specific sequence of characters. If a match is found, the operator will return TRUE, otherwise FALSE will be returned.

Examples

Example 1

{'Welcome to my homepage!'|contains( 'my' )}

Returns TRUE.

Example 2

{'Welcome to my homepage!'|contains( 'your' )}