arg! I just want a String.Contains()!

[Andrew Backer]

That's all, that and one or two other simple helper functions that I
have to re-write over and over and over :(

Why is there no String.Contains()? I look for it every day!
Tis just return str.IndexOf(find)!=-1;

Rants overwhelm the raves, since it's no fun to gush over a well done
framework :) GJ guys.

[jabailo]

Andrew Backer wrote:

That's all, that and one or two other simple helper functions that I
have to re-write over and over and over :(

Why is there no String.Contains()? I look for it every day!
Tis just return str.IndexOf(find)!=-1;

Rants overwhelm the raves, since it's no fun to gush over a well done
framework :) GJ guys.

There's no one stopping you from writing your own assemblies and putting
them in the GAC for use by any application.

[Nick Malik [Microsoft]]

Create your own helper classes and reference them in your projects. No
reason to write things over and over.

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That's all, that and one or two other simple helper functions that I
have to re-write over and over and over :(

Why is there no String.Contains()? I look for it every day!
Tis just return str.IndexOf(find)!=-1;

Rants overwhelm the raves, since it's no fun to gush over a well done
framework :) GJ guys.

[Andrew Backer]

.... yes, i know, and I do, and they are for different clients and
sharing technically isn't allowed or I don't control the whole project
or the damn thing is so simple, and I like things self contained so no
gac and no real good reason...

// (from java? I don't remember) , I would like to be able to do :
string funkeyText = this.txtInputThingy.text;
if ( funkeyText.Contains( "key") ) { ... }

It's just so *natural* that I keep typing it in automatically and going
"whoops" over and over again. Every time I say "oh! that's right! why
isn't that there? everything else is?". It had just happend for the
Nth time, so I wrote about it. Other than that I have almost no use
for string helpers, since the class is so friendly to start with.

- Andrew