CFML Reference
ColdFusion Functions

Find

Description

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

Return value

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

Category

String functions

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>

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