How to check whether a string contains a substring in Ruby

Question

I have a string variable with content:

varMessage =   
            \"hi/thsid/sdfhsjdf/dfjsd/sdjfsdn\\n\"


            \"/my/name/is/balaji.so\\n\"
                 


        

Answer 1

If case is irrelevant, then a case-insensitive regular expression is a good solution:

'aBcDe' =~ /bcd/i  # evaluates as true

This will also work for multi-line strings.

See Ruby's Regexp class for more information.