Find

Description

Finds the first occurrence of a substring in a string, from a specified start position. The search is case sensitive.

Returns

A number; the position of substring in string; or 0, if substring is not in string.

Category

String functions

Function syntax

Find(substring, string [, start ])

See also

FindNoCase, Compare, FindOneOf, REFind, Replace

Parameters

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>