Question

I know there’s a method contain(), it looks like this:

Dim arr() as string = {"apple","banana","orange"}
For each fruit in arr
 If fruit.contains("app") Then
  Return True
 End If
Next

It will return true because “apple” contains letter “a”. This is not what I want. I want it to return true only when “apple” contains the whole word “app”. Is there any method or function to do this?

Answer 1

“apple” does in fact contain the whole word “app”, so Contains() is still probably your best bet.

From MSDN:

String.Contains Method Returns a
value indicating whether the specified
String object occurs within this
string.

Here is the link to it with samples.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dy85x1sa.aspx