diff --git a/src/llama.cpp b/src/llama.cpp
index 70ec46465..3edaa98e8 100644
--- a/src/llama.cpp
+++ b/src/llama.cpp
@@ -19685,7 +19685,7 @@ static int32_t llama_chat_apply_template_internal(
         if (add_ass) {
             ss << "<s>assistant\n";
         }
-    } else if (tmpl == "gemma" || tmpl == "gemma2" || tmpl.find("<start_of_turn>") != std::string::npos) {
+    } else if (tmpl == "gemma" || tmpl == "gemma2" || tmpl_contains("<start_of_turn>")) {
         // google/gemma-7b-it
         std::string system_prompt = "";
         for (auto message : chat) {