# I have a block suggestion
**URL:** https://forum.makecode.com/t/i-have-a-block-suggestion/33997
**Category:** Forum Feedback
**Tags:** make, game
**Created:** [February 20, 2025, 1:30pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/i-have-a-block-suggestion/33997 "2025-02-20T13:30:10Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@platformermaster](https://forum.makecode.com/u/platformermaster)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2025, 1:30pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/i-have-a-block-suggestion/33997/1 "2025-02-20T13:30:10Z")
Can one of the [@moderators](https://forum.makecode.com/groups/moderators) add a block to the arrays section?
This block is a “if contains ”
Please add this is would be soooo helpful
if there is an easier way for me to do this in blocks instead of have you create a whole new block?
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### Author:  [@AlexK](https://forum.makecode.com/u/AlexK)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2025, 1:32pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/i-have-a-block-suggestion/33997/2 "2025-02-20T13:32:01Z")
Hi, @platformermaster !
I think the block that you want is already at the bottom of the **Arrays** drawer. Try the `find index of` block.
To use it in an `if` block, test if the result is greater than -1. In other words, if the block returns -1, then the item does not exist in the array.
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### Author:  [@platformermaster](https://forum.makecode.com/u/platformermaster)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2025, 5:46pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/i-have-a-block-suggestion/33997/3 "2025-02-20T17:46:46Z")
Okay i was wondering what that block did, Thanks!
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### Author:  [@AlexK](https://forum.makecode.com/u/AlexK)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2025, 5:51pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/i-have-a-block-suggestion/33997/4 "2025-02-20T17:51:25Z")
BTW, Sarge 's **BetterArrays** extension includes the block that you describe.
> [@\[Extension\] BetterArrays - 60 useful array blocks!](https://forum.makecode.com/t/extension-betterarrays-60-useful-array-blocks/29154):
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> Attention: this post is so big that it broke Discourse’s 32k character limit, so I had to split it into two parts. Part 2 will be posted in the replies. Please don’t reply until you see part 2 posted below. Hello everyone, it’s ya boy with another extension. [Last time](https://forum.makecode.com/t/extension-stringify-convert-anything-to-strings/28585) I said I’d return with a bigger extension, so here I am, after 3 weeks of pouring digital blood, sweat and tears into this extension. This is by far the biggest extension I’ve ever created - adding 60 blocks with ~1300 lines of ext…
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### Author:  [@redSprite](https://forum.makecode.com/u/redSprite)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2025, 6:11pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/i-have-a-block-suggestion/33997/5 "2025-02-20T18:11:10Z")
I’m not a moderator… But I made 2 function blocks based on what I think you need.
> **[If-Array-Includes-Example](https://arcade.makecode.com/84851-46906-15573-61300)**
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> Made with ❤️ in Microsoft MakeCode Arcade.
One functions for number arrays, the other functions for string arrays.
Tell me if anything is wrong.