strings

Checks if string input contains a substring.

Signature

> str contains {flags} (string) ...rest

Flags

• --ignore-case, -i: search is case insensitive
• --not, -n: does not contain

Parameters

• string: The substring to find.
• ...rest: For a data structure input, check strings at the given cell paths, and replace with result.

Input/output types:

input	output
list<string>	list<bool>
record	record
string	bool
table	table

Examples

Check if input contains string

> 'my_library.rb' | str contains '.rb'
true

Check if input contains string case insensitive

> 'my_library.rb' | str contains --ignore-case '.RB'
true

Check if input contains string in a record

> { ColA: test, ColB: 100 } | str contains 'e' ColA
╭──────┬──────╮
│ ColA │ true │
│ ColB │ 100  │
╰──────┴──────╯

Check if input contains string in a table

>  [[ColA ColB]; [test 100]] | str contains --ignore-case 'E' ColA
╭───┬──────┬──────╮
│ # │ ColA │ ColB │
├───┼──────┼──────┤
│ 0 │ true │  100 │
╰───┴──────┴──────╯

Check if input contains string in a table

>  [[ColA ColB]; [test hello]] | str contains 'e' ColA ColB
╭───┬──────┬──────╮
│ # │ ColA │ ColB │
├───┼──────┼──────┤
│ 0 │ true │ true │
╰───┴──────┴──────╯

Check if input string contains 'banana'

> 'hello' | str contains 'banana'
false

Check if list contains string

> [one two three] | str contains o
╭───┬───────╮
│ 0 │ true  │
│ 1 │ true  │
│ 2 │ false │
╰───┴───────╯

Check if list does not contain string

> [one two three] | str contains --not o
╭───┬───────╮
│ 0 │ false │
│ 1 │ false │
│ 2 │ true  │
╰───┴───────╯