Is there any way to identify words from a label (or array) within my TextEdit Text?

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Hello, I’m a relatively new user to Godot and am currently coding a game that requires a word identification system. My current code is listed down below. I have ‘Meow’ as a place holder currently. This code works, but I’m unsure on if I could replace ‘Meow’ with the words within my array (which are currently a series of letters from A-G but i will be replacing them with full words later)

func _on_tutton_pressed() -> void:
	text_edit.editable = false
	if  $TextEdit.text.contains('Meow'):
		print("score")

this is godot 4.6.

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Use a for loop to iterate over your array of words and do the same check as you did with “Meow” on each item of the array.

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Something like this would run the same check against every entry:

@export var words: Array[String] = ["A", "B", "C"]

func _on_tutton_pressed() -> void:
	text_edit.editable = false
	for word in words:
		if text_edit.text.contains(word):
			print("score ", word)

One thing to keep in mind, contains is a substring check. With single letters in the array right now, an “A” counts as a hit inside any word the player typed, and once you swap in real words, “cat” would still match inside “catalog”.

If you want a word to only count when it’s typed on its own, split the text first and check the pieces:

var typed := text_edit.text.to_lower().split(" ", false)
for word in words:
	if typed.has(word.to_lower()):
		print("score ", word)

That version splits on spaces, so something like “cat.” with punctuation on it wouldn’t match.