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>

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

SUBSTRING  

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

STRING  

Start position of search.

START