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.

Function syntax

Find(substring, string [, start ])

Parameters

Parameter	Description
substring	A string or a variable that contains one. String for which to search.
string	A string or a variable that contains one. String in which to search.
start	Start position of search.

Example

<cfoutput>
<cfset stringToSearch = "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.">
#find("the",stringToSearch)# 
#find("the",stringToSearch,35)# 
#find("no such substring",stringToSearch)# 
 
#findnocase("the",stringToSearch)# 
#findnocase("the",stringToSearch,5)# 
#findnocase("no such substring",stringToSearch)# 
 
#findoneof("aeiou",stringToSearch)# 
#findoneof("aeiou",stringToSearch,4)# 
#findoneof("@%^*()",stringToSearch)# 
</cfoutput>

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