Finding exact match of one string in another..

[Ashish Patel]

Hi all,

I would like to find the exact match of one string in another.
Currently i have used XPATH's contains() function to do this task, but the problem is it also returns true if it is not an exact match.


Syntax of contains() is :-
contains("'String_to_be_searched_Within','String_to_be_searched_For'")
--- Return value = true/false

See the e.g. :- If I want the string say 'ash' to be searched in a string 'Hello ashish .How r u?' , the contains() will return "true" bcoz. it finds "ashish" in the string which is not the exact match for "ash" which i have searched for.

So please give me an insight on how to solve this.

[Balaji Loganathan]

>>contains("'String_to_be_searched_Within','String_to_be_searched_For'")

Have you tried test?

like
<xsl:if test="'String_to_be_searched_Within'='String_to_be_searched_For'">
True
</xsl:if>

[Dirk Schreckmann]

Ashish P,

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