searching for a substring

[sashan]

Dean Herington wrote:

>On Thu, 8 May 2003, sashan wrote:
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>>Hi
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>>I've written a function that checks for a substring in a given string. 
>>This seems like a common thing to do and was wondering if there is a 
>>function that does this in one of the standard modules.
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>>stringContains :: String -> String -> Bool
>>stringContains _ [] = True
>>stringContains [] _ = False
>>stringContains (h:t) (h1:t1) = if h == h1 then stringContains t t1 else 
>>stringContains t (h1:t1)
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>Do you intend the following behavior?
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>*Main> "x.y.z" `stringContains` "xyz"
>True
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Nope