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Combine contains and ismatch? #19250

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simonbyrne opened this issue Nov 7, 2016 · 5 comments
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Combine contains and ismatch? #19250

simonbyrne opened this issue Nov 7, 2016 · 5 comments
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search & find The find* family of functions strings "Strings!"

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simonbyrne commented Nov 7, 2016 •
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ismatch and contains do basically the same thing, except the first takes a regex pattern, the second a string pattern, and the argument order is switched.

Can we combine them, and if so, which one should we keep?
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See also #10593

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simonbyrne commented Nov 7, 2016 •
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(let's try a vote by thumbs up)

contains

  • matches the argument order of replace (which already accepts both regexes and strings)

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ismatch

  • begins with is (making it easy to find by tab completion)
  • matches the argument order of match

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dhoegh commented Nov 7, 2016

See also discussion in #18028.

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Closed by #24673

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