Hi all, sorry for the very simple question, but I'm looking at the "among" function in std.comparison:

https://dlang.org/phobos/std_algorithm_comparison.html#among

If I have a string array:

string[] fruit = ["apple", "pear", "strawberry"];

How do I use "among" to see if "apple" is present.  E.g.  I want to do this:

if ("apple".among(fruit))

However that wont compile - I'm missing something fundamental in my knowledge.

It seems fruit has to be a Tuple?  Is there a way to use a string array instead?

On Saturday, 16 September 2017 at 11:18:45 UTC, Andrew Chapman wrote:
> string[] fruit = ["apple", "pear", "strawberry"];
>
> How do I use "among" to see if "apple" is present.  E.g.  I want to do this:
>
> if ("apple".among(fruit))

among doesn't take an array, but rather a list of arguments:

"bar".among("foo", "bar", "baz")


For searching in an array, you can use canFind:

if(fruit.canFind("apple"))

On Saturday, 16 September 2017 at 12:09:28 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> On Saturday, 16 September 2017 at 11:18:45 UTC, Andrew Chapman wrote:
>> string[] fruit = ["apple", "pear", "strawberry"];
>>
>> How do I use "among" to see if "apple" is present.  E.g.  I want to do this:
>>
>> if ("apple".among(fruit))
>
> among doesn't take an array, but rather a list of arguments:
>
> "bar".among("foo", "bar", "baz")
>
>
> For searching in an array, you can use canFind:
>
> if(fruit.canFind("apple"))

Thanks Adam!