Re: st: match(s1,s2) function

[Fred Wolfe <fwolfe@arthritis-research.org>]

>     I want to evalute if S1 is a substring of S2, for example, "str" is a 
> sbustring of "substring" . To my great disappointed, the match(s1,s2) 
> only works as the "==" operator. Can anyone help me?
Use the index function and test if index(S2,S1) == 0

Fred Wolfe




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