# How does one easily replace "contains" with "occursin"?

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-does-one-easily-replace-contains-with-occursin/13059>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Created:** [August 9, 2018, 4:41am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-does-one-easily-replace-contains-with-occursin/13059 "2018-08-09T04:41:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![LeoK987](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/leok987/32/4880_2.png) [@LeoK987](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/LeoK987)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2018, 4:41am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-does-one-easily-replace-contains-with-occursin/13059/1 "2018-08-09T04:41:05Z")

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“contains” is deprecated in 0.7, but the arguments in the new “occursin” are reversed, making it uneasy to do a replacement.

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**Author:** ![Tamas\_Papp](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/tamas_papp/32/25949_2.png) [@Tamas\_Papp](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Tamas_Papp)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2018, 5:25am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-does-one-easily-replace-contains-with-occursin/13059/2 "2018-08-09T05:25:40Z")

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[https://juliacomputing.com/blog/2017/08/17/femtocleaner.html](https://juliacomputing.com/blog/2017/08/17/femtocleaner.html)