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Check For A Substring Match

Using Erlang's :binary.match function, you can easily check if a string has a matching substring.

> :binary.match("all food is good", "foo")
{4, 3}
> :binary.match("all food is good", "bar")
:nomatch

As you can see, the return value on a successful match is a tuple with the index of where the match starts and the length of the match. If there is no match, the :nomatch atom is returned.

See the match/2 and match/3 docs for more details.

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