How to write a logic similar to FileMaker's Patterncount? or what is the function I can use?

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Hi,

How do you search to see if a string is contained in another string?
Example: if BF_Text1 has a string of text in it “Today is a good day”. How do I write a logic to test if BF_Text1 contains “good”? I want to use it in “values_calc” so a JSON object can conditionally show or hide.

A while ago I learned from fmbf team to use Lodash’s function to filter value. Example: “_.filter(model.BF_Text1 , {‘venue’ : ‘Canberra Theatre’}).length” which is great. But that seems to work for array only. Now I just want to search a string within a string (hence like Patterncount).

I tried to look up manual for Loadash, Numeral and Moment but didn’t have much luck. Clumsy at JS still.

Thanks in advance,

Kevin.

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If you just want to emulate pattern count in a string you can use includes
see here: JavaScript String includes() Method

No need for loadash on this one.

c

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Cool. thanks :+1:. I tried string.search() but didn’t work. Tried to spot something to try but didn’t see this one. I will try this one in a moment. Thanks a million again.