Adobe ColdFusion 8

FindOneOf

Description

Finds the first occurrence of any one of a set of characters in a string, from a specified start position. The search is case-sensitive.

Returns

The position of the first member of set found in string; or 0, if no member of set is found in string.

Category

String functions

Function syntax

FindOneOf(set, string [, start ])

See also

Find, Compare, REFind

Parameters

Parameter

Description

set

A string or a variable that contains one. String that contains one or more characters to search for.

string

A string or a variable that contains one. String in which to search.

start

Start position of search.

Example

<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>