find

Description

Finds the first occurrence of a substring in a string, from a specified start position. The search is case sensitive.

Syntax

Find(substring, string [, start ])

Attributes

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

Returns

A number; the position of substring in string; or 0, if substring is not in string.

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>

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