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user3121357
user3121357

Reputation: 107

Checking if a string contains a specific word C#

I am checking these strings to see if they contain the word "hi" and returning true if they do. otherwise i am returning false. the string "high up should return false but is returning true. How can i fix this?

    public static bool StartHi(string str)
    {            
        if (Regex.IsMatch(str, "hi"))
        {
            return true;
        }
        else
            return false;
    }

    static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        StartHi("hi there");    // -> true
        StartHi("hi");          // -> true
        StartHi("high up");     // -> false (returns true when i run)
    }

Upvotes: 6

Views: 21367

Answers (3)

ovinu
ovinu

Reputation: 11

This code will return True for "jumps" but not "jump" in sentence.

string sourceText = "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy white dog.";
string textToCheck = "jump";
   if (sourceText.Split(' ').Contains(textToCheck))
            {
                Console.WriteLine("Word \"" + textToCheck + "\" EXACTLY exists in sentence");
            }
            else
            {
                Console.WriteLine("Word \"" + textToCheck + "\" doesn't exist in sentence");
            }
            Console.ReadLine();

Upvotes: 0

DanKodi
DanKodi

Reputation: 3640

private static bool CheckIfExists(string sourceText, string textToCheck)
    {
        return sourceText.Split(' ').Contains(textToCheck);
    }

Upvotes: 3

AlexD
AlexD

Reputation: 32566

Try specifying word boundaries (\b):

if(Regex.IsMatch(str, @"\bhi\b"))

Upvotes: 21

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