# How to find some text in a string using Homey script?

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**Created:** [January 14, 2023, 8:26pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/how-to-find-some-text-in-a-string-using-homey-script/75096 "2023-01-14T20:26:25Z")\
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I am looking for a solution to find a specific value which is stored in a logic value text string.

My logic value text string is name: film\_zenders and it contains a list of film channels:  
‘Film sky\_cinema play\_more amc\_hd axn\_white great!\_action great!\_romance great!\_movies hollywoodhd M+ tmc\_hd’

An other logic value contains the current channel name of my TV box, for example: ‘Film1\_action’, there are never any spaces in the channel name.

I tried to use logic cards to check if there is a partial match between the 2 string, but sadly the logic cards have no preg\_match or regex functionality.

No I hope Homey script can do this.

Does someone know how i can get this to work:  
So i am looking for code which does the following:

- read the logic value ‘film\_zenders’
- read the logic value ‘tv\_channel’
- compare if ‘tv\_channel’ has a partial match in ‘tv\_zenders’ list
- If there is a match return true otherwise return false

So when ‘tv\_channel’ has the name ‘sky\_cinema\_action’ in it should return true, but when it contains ‘sbs6’ it should return false as result