How to check if a string contains another string in LiveCode

Learn how to find out if a given string is in a different string in LiveCode in this quick and easy tutorial.

First, let’s define the two strings as follows:

put "hello" into tSearchTerm
put "this is a sample string!" into tString

To find out if tString contains tSearchTerm, perform the following:

if tString contains tSearchTerm then
	-- search term was found
end if

That’s all there is to it!