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586 Chapter 3: ColdFusion Functions
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>
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.