Re: question does haskell have a something like a wild character

john xxx wrote:

i want to know if HAskell has an inbuilt function in the prelude a function that allows me to use wild character like so:

ie. if a list of strings contains a word or a combination of words that do not necessarily have to be side by side. someting that works like so [.. "hello" ..] == ["my", "tie" , "egg", "hello", "good"] would return True. where .. represents other elements of the list it counld be 1element or a hundred elements.

whatis elem; elem :: (Prelude.Eq b) => b -> [b] -> Bool elem "hello" ["my", "tie" , "egg", "hello", "good"]; True

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