Hi,

I needed a function that returns True/False if a list of strings are in a given string. I made one function below (works fine),..but I was wondering whether there is a shorter way?


-- |Returns True if one of given strings are contained in given string
contains :: [String] -> String -> Bool
contains elements seach_elem
   | trueListCount == 0 = False
   | otherwise = True
   where
      isInStringList = [isInfixOf elem seach_elem | elem <- elements]
      onlyTrueList = [elem | elem <- isInStringList, elem == True]
      trueListCount = length onlyTrueList

Cheers,

-m

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