Test for characters in a string

I think scan would be faster and work assuming you can use a character class to define what you want to match.

 

 

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[chars]

 

The input substring consists of one or more characters in chars. The matching string is stored in the variable. If the first character between the brackets is a ] then it is treated as part of chars rather than the closing bracket for the set. If chars contains a sequence of the form a-b then any character between a and b (inclusive) will match. If the first or last character between the brackets is a -, then it is treated as part of chars rather than indicating a range.

 

 

 

 

Aaron

Another option is to use the switch statement. So if you just want to see if "X", "Y", or "Z" are in a string, this would do the trick:

switch -glob $var {
  "*A*" -
  "*B*" -
  "*C*" {
     match found
  }
  default {
     no match found
  }
}

This will perform a bit faster than a comparable regular expression or if/elseif statements.

-Joe