Check if a string contains a substring in SQL Server 2005, using a stored procedure

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CHARINDEX() searches for a substring within a larger string, and returns the position of the match, or 0 if no match is found

if CHARINDEX('ME',@mainString) > 0begin    --do somethingend

Edit or from daniels answer, if you're wanting to find a word (and not subcomponents of words), your CHARINDEX call would look like:

CHARINDEX(' ME ',' ' + REPLACE(REPLACE(@mainString,',',' '),'.',' ') + ' ')

(Add more recursive REPLACE() calls for any other punctuation that may occur)

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You can just use wildcards in the predicate (after IF, WHERE or ON):

@mainstring LIKE '%' + @substring + '%'

or in this specific case

' ' + @mainstring + ' ' LIKE '% ME[., ]%'

(Put the spaces in the quoted string if you're looking for the whole word, or leave them out if ME can be part of a bigger word).

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