I want to check if string b
is completely contained in string a
.
I tried:
var a = "helloworld";
var b = "wold";
if(a.indexOf(b)) {
document.write('yes');
} else {
document.write('no');
}
The output is yes, it is not my expected output, because string b(wold) is not completely contained in string a(helloworld) --- wold v.s. world
Any suggestion to check the string?
Answer
Read the documentation: MDC String.indexOf :)
indexOf
returns the index the match was found. This may be 0 (which means "found at the beginning of string") and 0 is a falsy value.
indexOf
will return -1 if the needle was not found (and -1 is a truthy value). Thus the logic on the test needs to be adjusted to work using these return codes. String found (at beginning or elsewhere): index >= 0
or index > -1
or index != -1
; String not found: index < 0
or index == -1
.
Happy coding.
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