String Contains

Cordial provides the Smarty utility "strContains" to find a string of characters within another string of characters.

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{$test = $utils->strContains('fire','firestorm')}
{if $test}true{else}false{/if}

true

The above example uses the utility to check if "fire" exists in "firestorm", and then prints the result with an {if} statement.

Try it Out: You can test the above example in your account by pasting the code into the edit message field and clicking the "Preview" button.

You can use this utility to check whether a contact's attribute contains a certain string. This is useful if you have data that is non-normalized.

For example, if you have a contact attribute of "company name" with non-normalized values such as: Prudential Reality, Prudential Inc, Prudential, Prudential.com, you can use the string contains utility to find if company name contains the word "Prudential" and then render content in a message based on the result.

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{$prudential = $utils->strContains('prudential',{$contact.companyname})}
{if $prudential}Prudential content{/if}

Prudential content

In the next article learn how to update contact attributes or list values.

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