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Text Contained Within String
I’d like to write an IF statement that can look at text in a string (MyString) to determine if a word is contained or found within the string.
Below is the simplest example I could make up on this question. I know this won’t work but I’m trying to figure out the language.
Is it possible to search for text within it?
Thanks.MyString = "This is my text"
if (MyString.contains("my") "Yes" else "Nope" -
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MyString = “This is my text”
if (MyString.indexOf(“my”)) “Yes” else “Nope”You were missing a closing bracket, but you use indexOf() not contains. Unless someone corrects me. Eitherway the above will work for you.
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Here to correct and annoy people ?
In case indexOf() does not find a value, it returns -1. -1 is truthy, so this always returns Yes.
In case he intends to use this in the new expression engine, else does not work on the same line with if.
MyString = "This is my text"
if (MyString.indexOf("my")!=-1) "Yes"
else "Nope"
Andrei
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Ah yes, my bad. Can’t believe I missed that bit. Hahaha
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This was all super helpful. I’m also beginning to understand more how to search for things and key words on creative cow. Thank you!!
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About searching things better. Here is what I suggest:
You need to learn few keywords like string, number, array.
Then search what you want to find out with javascript.
For example, searching “find a word in string javascript” returns 2 results from w3schools which both could of helped you ;DAndrei
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