How to check if a string is part of any string in a list of strings with Groovy?

Question

Given

String myString = "blah"
List list = ["a", "b", "cblah", "dblah"]

Task

Check if "blah" is contained in any element of list.

Answer 1

Solution

println list.any { it.contains(myString) }
println list.find { it.contains(myString) }
list.findAll { it.contains(myString) }.each { print it + " " }

Console output

true
cblah
cblah dblah

Explanation

any returns true or false.

find returns the first element that contains "blah".

findAll returns all elements that contain "blah".