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Prevent String.Contains from matching empty
I'm running a filter command on an object in kotlin and trying to match results. I didn't realize until today that an empty string will match any string in a contains query as follows:

var brandname = ""
var brandtofind = "tide"
var result = brandtofind.contains(brandname) //results in true


This is problematic when you are trying to match entries where a string can be empty as follows:

var candidates = this.filter{ product ->
text.contains(product.name) ||...