Find specific text within a string?

[jlizarraga]

Suppose I wanted to know if the string "43fdsfhipposa97sad" contained the smaller string "hippo". How would I go about determining that?

Thanks!

[jscheuer1]

if (/hippo/.test("43fdsfhipposa97sad"))
alert("It's in there!");

Or, more useful in a way:

var teststring = "43fdsfhipposa97sad";
if (/hippo/.test(teststring))
alert("It's in there!");

[rangana]

Another way to go is to use:

• indexOf():
  

  var str='43fdsfhipposa97sad';
  if (str.indexOf('hippo')>1)
  alert("It's in there!");

• match():
  

  var str='43fdsfhipposa97sad';
  if (str.match('hippo'))
  alert("It's in there!");

[jscheuer1]

Another way to go is to use:

• indexOf():
  

  var str='43fdsfhipposa97sad';
  if (str.indexOf('hippo')>1)
  alert("It's in there!");

• match():
  

  var str='43fdsfhipposa97sad';
  if (str.match('hippo'))
  alert("It's in there!");

Both of these are less efficient than test(). However, depending upon what other information (if any) you may want to get out of the string (str in your examples), those other methods can prove useful.

[jlizarraga]

Thanks guys!