Check to see if a string contains a combination of another string

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I have a string that I'd like to fuzzy match on, I've tried using ES6 includes but it doesn't seem to match the conditions where I'd like it to.

const station = 'virginia square-gmu george mason university'

When I do the following I end up getting false even though all of the words are included inside of station.

station.includes('virginia square george mason university')
> false

What would be the correct way to see if station includes any combination of the words passed into the includes statement, would RegEx be a good candidate for this?

Andy · Accepted Answer · 2018-12-01 14:39:09Z

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split the words into an array and use every to check that each word is contained within the string.

const station = 'virginia square-gmu george mason university'
const words = 'virginia square george mason university';

const all = words.split(' ').every(word => station.includes(word));
console.log(all);

answered Dec 1, 2018 at 14:39

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