Thinking about this...

> On 12 Jun 2017, at 11:17, Francesco Rivetti <o...@oha.it> wrote:
> 
> if you can:
> 
> $s ~~ "foo"
> $s ~~ /foo/
> 
> then wouldn't be good to have also:
> 
> $s.contains("foo");
> $s.contains(/foo/);
> 
> IOW, overload .contains() with Str and Regex
> 
> F
> 
> On 06/12/2017 10:42 AM, Elizabeth Mattijsen wrote:
>>> On 12 Jun 2017, at 01:27, ToddAndMargo <toddandma...@zoho.com> wrote:
>>> perl6 -e 'my $x = "\t"; if $x !~~ /<[A..Z a..z 0..9]>/ {say "out"} else 
>>> {say "in"}'
>>> 
>>> Would this be easier to do with $x.contains?  Or would it
>>> be too worky?
>> .contains only takes a *single string* to look up.  So it is only useful for 
>> checking whether “foo” exists in “foo bar”:
>>   say “foo bar”.contains(“foo”)
>> Liz

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