How to find substring in string bash

Linux
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#1

I have url like example.com/app1/ID_123 or example.com/app2/ID_123 stored in a shell variable named my_url or array. How do I check if a string contains a substring such as app1 or app2 in Bash? Can I do grep app1 $my_url? The grep one is not working out for me. Hence, I wanna know How to find substring inside a string and how to grep a variable?

#2

Try the case…esac statment

case "$my_url" in
    *app1* ) echo "app1 found";;
    *app2* ) echo "app2 found";;
    * ) echo "Error, app1 or app2 not found in $my_url";;
esac

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