• *ANY Function
• *AT_MULTI Function
• *ATC_MULTI Function
• *FIRST Function
• *LEADING Function
• A5_EXTRACT_ADVANCE Function
• a5_font_list Function
• AT Function
• AT2 Function
• at_u Function
• ATC Function
• atc_u Function
• CONTAINS Function
• find_duplicate_lines Function
• l is_object Function
• RAT Function
• regex_match_length Function
• TEXTSEARCH Function
• TEXTSEARCHSCORE Function
• WORD Function
• WORD_FROM_POS Function
• WORDAT Function
• WORDATC Function
• WordFromEnd Function
• WORDS Function

CONTAINS Function

Syntax

Arguments

String

The target to examine, a character string containing words separated by space characters.

Words

A character string containing words separated by space characters. The words to find in the target string.

Description

Returns TRUE if the string contains all the words (case sensitive).

Discussion

CONTAINS() returns .T. (TRUE) if all words in the Find_Words string appear at least once in the Search_String ; otherwise, it returns .F. (FALSE). Words found in memo fields will be highlighted. Find_Words can contain wildcard characters (* and ? ).

Example

contains("now is the time for all good men", "now all is women") -> .F. because the word "women" does not appear in the first string
contains("now is the time for all good men", "now all is Men") -> .F. because the word "Men" is different from "men"
contains("now is the time for all good men", "now all is ") -> .T.

Limitations

The Find_Words argument is case sensitive.

See Also

• Character Comparison Functions
• CONTAINSI()
• CONTAINSX()