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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users check if a variable contains a string Post 302266774 by melanie_pfefer on Thursday 11th of December 2008 03:30:14 AM
Old 12-11-2008
check if a variable contains a string

hi

I have an if condition that states:

if [$x does not contain $y]; then
exit


how to translate this?

$x is a path
$y is a string that comes at the end of the path

thx
 

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treepath or undef = Gtk2::TreePath->new ($path=undef) o $path (string) Create a new path. For convenience, if you pass a value for $path, this is just an alias for "new_from_string". treepath = Gtk2::TreePath->new_first treepath or undef = Gtk2::TreePath->new_from_indices ($first_index, ...) o $first_index (integer) a non-negative index value o ... (list) of zero or more index values The C API reference docs for this function say to mark the end of the list with a -1, but Perl doesn't need list terminators, so don't do that. This is specially implemented to be available for all gtk+ versions. treepath or undef = Gtk2::TreePath->new_from_string ($path=undef) o $path (string) $path->append_index ($index_) o $index_ (integer) integer = $a->compare ($b) o $b (Gtk2::TreePath) Compares two paths. If $a appears before $b in the three, returns -1. If $b appears before $a, returns 1. If the nodes are equal, returns 0. integer = $path->get_depth $path->down Moves $path to point to the first child of the current path. list = $path->get_indices Returns a list of integers describing the current indices of $path. boolean = $path->is_ancestor ($descendant) o $descendant (Gtk2::TreePath) boolean = $path->is_descendant ($ancestor) o $ancestor (Gtk2::TreePath) $path->next Moves $path to point to the next node at the current depth. $path->prepend_index ($index_) o $index_ (integer) boolean = $path->prev Moves $path to point to the previous node at the current depth, if it exists. Returns true if there is a previous node and $path was modified. string = $path->to_string boolean = $path->up Moves $path to point to its parent node; returns false if there is no parent. SEE ALSO
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