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Section 5.4 The in and not in operators
The
in operator tests if one string is a substring of another:
Note that a string is a substring of itself, and the empty string is a substring of any other string. (Also note that computer scientists like to think about these edge cases quite carefully!)
The
not in operator returns the logical opposite result of
in.
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