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The "contains" operator/method is used to determine if an entity collection contains an element with a particular property.

The contains operator/method is used to determine whether one (or more) of the entities in an entity collection has a particular property.

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JSON Schema: How to check that an array contains at least one object with a property with a given value?

How can I check in the following json that at least one element in the array names has a property nickName with the value Ginny? { "names": [ { "firstName": "Hermione", "lastName": "Granger" }, { "firstName": "Harry", …
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How Does List.Contains() Find Matching Items?

I have a list of car objects List cars = GetMyListOfCars(); and i want to see if a car is in the list if (cars.Contains(myCar)) { } what does Contains use to figure out if myCar is in the list. Does it do a "ToString()" on my car object. …
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Understanding contains method of Java HashSet

Newbie question about java HashSet Set s = new HashSet(); User u = new User(); u.setName("name1"); s.add(u); u.setName("name3"); System.out.println(s.contains(u)); Can someone explain why this code output false ? Moreover this code does…
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What's different between Contains and Exists in List?

I want to know what's different between Contains and Exists in List ? They can both determine whether an element is in the List. But what's different between them? // Create a list of parts. List parts = new List(); // Add parts…
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Python List Class __contains__ Method Functionality

Does the __contains__ method of a list class check whether an object itself is an element of a list, or does it check whether the list contains an element equivalent to the given parameter? Could you give me an example to demonstrate?
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How do I find whether a string has a carriage return by using the String.Contain function using its ascii character?

In C#, how do I find whether a string has a carriage return by using the String.Contains function? The ascii for carriage return is 13. Chr(13) is how a carriage return is represented in Visual Basic. How is a carriage return represented in C#…
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High performance "contains" search in list of strings in C#

I have a list of approx. 500,000 strings, each approx. 100 characters long. Given a search term, I want to identify all strings in the list that contain the search term. At the moment I am doing this with a plain old dataset using the Select method…
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if contains certain text, then run jquery

I need to run a jquery only if the bold element contains particular text. What am I doing wrong?