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isStrSubset

Return True or False if one string is a subset of another string.

Available in version 4.3.0 and later.

Prototype

load "$NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/nclscripts/csm/contributed.ncl"  ; This library is automatically loaded
                                                             ; from NCL V6.2.0 onward.
                                                             ; No need for user to explicitly load.

	function isStrSubset (
		str        [1] : string,  
		str_subset [1] : string   
	)

	return_val [1] :  logical

Arguments

str

Variable of type string which will be searched for a substring.

str_subset

Variable of type string specifying the subset.

Description

Return True if str_subset is contained within the variable str; otherwise return False.

Note: this function is written as an NCL script, and can be quite slow if you have a lot of strings to process. There's a similar function, str_index_of_substr, that is written in C and may be faster. See below for an example of using this function.

See Also

indStrSubset, str_index_of_substr

Examples

Example 1

Is the string "orange" a subset of "apple_orange_banana"?

   aop = "apple_orange_banana"   
   o   = "orange"               
   tf  = isStrSubset(aop, o ) 
   if (tf) then  
       print(o+" is a subset of input string: "+aop)      
   else                                            
       print(o+" is NOT a subset of input string: "+aop)
   end if                                       

Here, tf=True and the oupt is

    orange is a subset of input string: apple_orange_banana

Example 2

Given an ascii file ["Station.Data"] containing station names and data, search each line for a station named "San Francisco".

   S = asciiread ("Station.Data", -1, "string")
   do n=0,nlines-1
      tf = isStrSubset( S(n), "San Francisco")
      if (tf) then
         .... do something ....
         break  ; jump to statement after the 'end do'
      end 
   end do

The above code snippet can be rewritten to use str_index_of_substr:

   S = asciiread ("Station.Data", -1, "string")
   do n=0,nlines-1
      tf = str_index_of_substr( S(n), "San Francisco",0)
      if (.not.any(ismissing(tf))) then
         .... do something ....
         break  ; jump to statement after the 'end do'
      end 
   end do

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