How to test if result of a command contains a string in fish shell?

Question

I'm trying to write a brief function to allow me to toggle wemo lights on and off from the command line. Basically I have a command that if i type wemo status will return either Switch: Lights 1 if the lights are on or 0 if they are off. I'd like to write a fish function that essentially lets me toggle them:

function lights --description 'Toggle lights'
    if contains (wemo status) "Lights 1"
        wemo switch "Lights" off
    else
        wemo switch "Lights" on
    end
end

Though this doesn't work. I'm thinking that the parens probably do a textual replacement? Anyone know how I can test if a string contains another string in Fish?

Answer 1

So I ended up fixing this with the following:

# Toggle lights
function lights --description "Toggle Wemo Lights"
    set -l wemo (wemo status)
    switch $wemo
        case '*1'
            wemo switch "Lights" off
        case '*0'
            wemo switch "Lights" on
    end
end

Answer 2

contains seems to be to test if a list contains an element

set elems foo bar baz
contains bar $elems; and echo yep

Using command substitution, the list appears to be line-oriented:

contains "e f"   (printf "%s\n" "a b c" "d e f" "g h i"); and echo y; or echo n
contains "d e f" (printf "%s\n" "a b c" "d e f" "g h i"); and echo y; or echo n

n
y

Pattern matching the result using switch is a good choice.