| FIND | |
| Description
Finds the first occurrence of a substring in a string, from a specified start position. The search is case-sensitive. |
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| Returns
A number; the position of substring in string; or 0, if substring is not in string. |
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| Category
String functions |
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Function syntaxFind(substring, string [, start ]) |
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| See also
FindNoCase, Compare, FindOneOf, REFind, Replace |
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Example<cfoutput>
<cfset stringToSearch = "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.">
#find("the",stringToSearch)#<br>
#find("the",stringToSearch,35)#<br>
#find("no such substring",stringToSearch)#<br>
<br>
#findnocase("the",stringToSearch)#<br>
#findnocase("the",stringToSearch,5)#<br>
#findnocase("no such substring",stringToSearch)#<br>
<br>
#findoneof("aeiou",stringToSearch)#<br>
#findoneof("aeiou",stringToSearch,4)#<br>
#findoneof("@%^*()",stringToSearch)#<br>
</cfoutput>
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| SUBSTRING | |
| STRING | |
| START | |