check if word contains letter javascript code example

Example 1: How find a specific character in js

var word = "This is how you locate a word in a string";
var n = word.includes("word");

Example 2: javascript contains substring

var str = "We got a poop cleanup on isle 4.";
if(str.indexOf("poop") !== -1){
	alert("Not again");
}
//use indexOf (it returns position of substring or -1 if not found)

Example 3: js check if string contains character

"FooBar".includes("oo"); // true

"FooBar".includes("foo"); // false

"FooBar".includes("oo", 2); // false

Example 4: js check if string contains character

if (your_string.indexOf('hello') > -1)
{
  alert("hello found inside your_string");
}