ContainsOnly

ContainsOnly[list1,list2]

yields True if list1 contains only elements that appear in list2.

ContainsOnly[list2]

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

Details and Options

Examples

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Basic Examples  (2)

The first list contains only elements in the second list:

The first list contains elements not present in the second list:

Scope  (4)

This is one of the longest English words containing only vowels:

Use ContainsOnly in operator form:

The number of songs composed either by John Lennon or Paul McCartney, or by both together:

ContainsOnly works with associations:

Options  (2)

SameTest  (2)

By default, ContainsOnly 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 characters of a text, in lower case:

They are all letters and basic punctuation symbols:

Properties & Relations  (3)

Reversing the arguments of ContainsOnly is equivalent to using ContainsAll:

ContainsOnly[list1,list2] is equivalent to SubsetQ[list2,list1]:

ContainsOnly[{},list] always returns True:

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

Text

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

CMS

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

APA

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

BibTeX

@misc{reference.wolfram_2025_containsonly, author="Wolfram Research", title="{ContainsOnly}", year="2015", howpublished="\url{https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/ContainsOnly.html}", note=[Accessed: 09-May-2025 ]}

BibLaTeX

@online{reference.wolfram_2025_containsonly, organization={Wolfram Research}, title={ContainsOnly}, year={2015}, url={https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/ContainsOnly.html}, note=[Accessed: 09-May-2025 ]}