Somewhere out there a programmer is wondering, "Why doesn't
Haskell seem to have a substring function? Why is this brave new world of functional programming so harsh and cruel?" (Well, maybe not the second part.) The
isInfixOf function in
Data.List does what you want. It isn't called "substring" because it also works with other types besides String. (See also
isPrefixOf,
isSuffixOf.)
I haven't seen this mentioned in Haskell tutorials so I'm posting it here.
Prelude> :m +Data.List
Prelude Data.List> "bc" `isInfixOf` "abcd"
True
Prelude Data.List> "zz" `isInfixOf` "abcd"
False
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