In C# you can easily check if a string contains one character or a series of characters using the .Contains() method on the String object. Below is a list of examples on how Contains can be used:
var myString = "abcdef";
var containsAString = myString.Contains("a"); //true
var containsBcdString = myString.Contains("bcd"); //true
var containsAcdString = myString.Contains("acd"); //false
var containsAbcString = myString.Contains("ABC"); //false
var containsAbcStringIgnoreCase = myString.Contains("ABC", StringComparison.InvariantCultureIgnoreCase); //true
In the above we define a string called myString and then call Contains with different strings to see if there is a match. From this we can see that Contains can match one character or a series of characters and that it is case sensitive per default. By providing ´StringComparison.InvariantCultureIgnoreCase` as a second parameter the case can be ignored.
If you need the index of the beginning of the string instead, then you can use IndexOf. It takes the exact same parameters, here are some examples:
var myString = "abcdef";
var indexOfAString = myString.IndexOf("a"); //0
var indexOfBcdString = myString.IndexOf("bcd"); //1
var indexOfAcdString = myString.IndexOf("acd"); //-1
var indexOfAbcString = myString.IndexOf("ABC"); //-1
var indexOfAbcStringIgnoreCase = myString.IndexOf("ABC", StringComparison.InvariantCultureIgnoreCase); //0
IndexOf returns -1 if the string to match is not found, else it will return the index of it starting from 0, as it is zero based.
That is all
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