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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

string.contains("something")

Just do that repeatedly

[โ€“] BassTurd 1 points 19 hours ago

The "something" is where the regex goes. For simple cases contains by itself does just fine, but for almost anything kind of dynamic input, it's going to not be capable of what regex does.