ContainsAny

ContainsAny[list1,list2]

yields True if list1 contains any of the elements of list2.

ContainsAny[list2]

is an operator form that yields True when the object to which it is applied contains any of the elements in list2.

Details and Options

Examples

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Basic Examples  (2)

The first list contains some of the elements of the second list:

The first list does not contain any of the elements of the second list:

Scope  (5)

Take a random integer between 0 and 1000:

Check whether it contains any even digit:

Use ContainsAny in operator form:

Find tunnels in several countries:

Find the movies directed by Steven Spielberg whose cast includes any of the actors in the given list:

ContainsAny works with associations:

Options  (2)

SameTest  (2)

By default, ContainsAny considers elements to be the same if they are identical:

Changes of units are taken into account, as long as they represent the exact same quantity:

Numerical approximations are not considered as the same object:

Use Equal as the comparison function to have numerical tolerance:

String comparisons are case sensitive by default:

Convert to lower case before comparing:

Applications  (1)

Take the list of words in the English translation of the first volume of Don Quixote:

It contains the names of some of the modern European countries:

But it cannot contain countries in South America, which did not exist then:

Properties & Relations  (6)

ContainsAny[list1,list2] is equivalent to testing for nonempty intersection of the lists:

ContainsAny[list1,list2] is equivalent to IntersectingQ[list1,list2]:

ContainsAny is a symmetric function of its arguments. That is, ContainsAny[list1,list2]==ContainsAny[list2,list1]:

Negation of ContainsAny[list1,list2] is equivalent to ContainsNone[list1,list2]:

ContainsAny[list,{}] always returns False:

When working with lists of strings, there is case sensitivity:

Wolfram Research (2015), ContainsAny, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/ContainsAny.html.

Text

Wolfram Research (2015), ContainsAny, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/ContainsAny.html.

CMS

Wolfram Language. 2015. "ContainsAny." Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Wolfram Research. https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/ContainsAny.html.

APA

Wolfram Language. (2015). ContainsAny. Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Retrieved from https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/ContainsAny.html

BibTeX

@misc{reference.wolfram_2025_containsany, author="Wolfram Research", title="{ContainsAny}", year="2015", howpublished="\url{https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/ContainsAny.html}", note=[Accessed: 09-May-2025 ]}

BibLaTeX

@online{reference.wolfram_2025_containsany, organization={Wolfram Research}, title={ContainsAny}, year={2015}, url={https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/ContainsAny.html}, note=[Accessed: 09-May-2025 ]}