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Add Check For A Substring Match as an elixir til

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- [Append To A Keyword List](elixir/append-to-a-keyword-list.md)
- [Assert An Exception Is Raised](elixir/assert-an-exception-is-raised.md)
- [Binary Representation Of A String](elixir/binary-representation-of-a-string.md)
- [Check For A Substring Match](elixir/check-for-a-substring-match.md)
- [Create A Date With The Date Sigil](elixir/create-a-date-with-the-date-sigil.md)
- [Do You Have The Time?](elixir/do-you-have-the-time.md)
- [Documentation Lookup With Vim And Alchemist](elixir/documentation-lookup-with-vim-and-alchemist.md)

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# Check For A Substring Match
Using Erlang's `:binary.match` function, you can easily check if a string
has a matching substring.
```elixir
> :binary.match("all food is good", "foo")
{4, 3}
> :binary.match("all food is good", "bar")
:nomatch
```
As you can see, the return value on a successful match is a tuple with the
index of where the match starts and the length of the match. If there is no
match, the `:nomatch` atom is returned.
See the [`match/2` and `match/3`
docs](http://erlang.org/doc/man/binary.html#match-2) for more details.
[source](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/35551072/how-to-find-index-of-a-substring)