Finds the first occurrence of a substring in a string, from a specified start position. If substring is not in string, returns zero. The search is case-insensitive.

The position of substring in string; or 0, if substring is not in string.

String functions

FindNoCase(substring, string [, start ])

Find, CompareNoCase, FindOneOf, REFind, Replace

In the following example, the Find function returns 33 as the first position found because "the" is lowercase. The FindNoCase function returns 1 as the first postion because the case is ignored.

<cfset stringToSearch = "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.">

stringToSearch = <cfoutput>#stringToSearch#</cfoutput><br>
<p>
Find Function:<br>
Find("the",stringToSearch) returns <cfoutput>#find("the",stringToSearch)#</
cfoutput><br>
<p>
FindNoCase Function:<br>
FindNoCase("the",stringToSearch) returns 
<cfoutput>#FindNoCase("the",stringToSearch)#</cfoutput>