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.. _cmd-contains:
contains - test if a word is present in a list
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Synopsis
--------
contains [OPTIONS] KEY [VALUES...]
Description
-----------
``contains`` tests whether the set ``VALUES`` contains the string ``KEY``. If so, ``contains`` exits with status 0; if not, it exits with status 1.
The following options are available:
- ``-i`` or ``--index`` print the word index
Note that, like GNU tools and most of fish's builtins, ``contains`` interprets all arguments starting with a ``-`` as options to contains, until it reaches an argument that is ``--`` (two dashes). See the examples below.
Example
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If $animals is a list of animals, the following will test if it contains a cat:
::
if contains cat $animals
echo Your animal list is evil!
end
This code will add some directories to $PATH if they aren't yet included:
::
for i in ~/bin /usr/local/bin
if not contains $i $PATH
set PATH $PATH $i
end
end
While this will check if ``hasargs`` was run with the ``-q`` option:
::
function hasargs
if contains -- -q $argv
echo '$argv contains a -q option'
end
end
The ``--`` here stops ``contains`` from treating ``-q`` to an option to itself. Instead it treats it as a normal string to check.