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
Function syntax
Find(substring, string [, start ]) |
See also
FindNoCase, Compare, FindOneOf, REFind, Replace
Parameters
Parameter |
Description |
---|---|
substring |
The string that you are searching for. |
string |
The string in which to search for the substring. |
start |
The position to start searching in the string (starts at 1). |
Example
1 2 3 4 5 6 | < cfoutput > < cfset stringToSearch = "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog." > # find ( "the" ,stringToSearch)# # find ( "the" ,stringToSearch,35)# # find ( "no such substring" ,stringToSearch)# </ cfoutput > |