[Newbies] determine if a String contains a String

Janko Mivšek janko.mivsek at eranova.si
Sun Sep 28 14:54:12 UTC 2008



Rob Rothwell wrote:
> While we are on the subject, is there an easy way to replace a substring 
> with another one?  I couldn't figure out any other way than to collect: 
> the substrings and then put them back together...


  aString copyReplaceAll: 'substring' with: 'another'


Janko


> 
> Rob
> 
> On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 10:27 AM, Norbert Hartl <norbert at hartl.name 
> <mailto:norbert at hartl.name>> wrote:
> 
>     On Sun, 2008-09-28 at 09:12 -0500, Mark Volkmann wrote:
>      > What's the recommended way to determine if a String contains another
>      > String?
>      > I found one way.
>      >
>      > '*substring*' matches: string
>      >
>      > I'm sure I could use a regular expression, but that seems like
>     overkill.
>      > At first I thought I should use include: or contains: from
>     Collection,
>      > but apparently not.
>      >
>      > ---
>     string includesSubstring: 'substring'
> 
>     Norbert
> 
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