Adobe ColdFusion 8

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

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)#<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>