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This routine is available starting with SIL Engine™ 1.0.

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applyColStyleToCell	true
heading	0
columnTypes	s,s,s,s
multiple	false
columnAttributes	style="background:#e5e7ea;font-weight:bold,,style="background:#e5e7ea;font-weight:bold,
enableSorting	false

Syntax	indexOf(str1, str2)	Package
Alias		Pkg Usage

Description

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Returns the index of the first match of the str2 in str1 or -1 if str2 is nowhere to be found in str1.

Returns the index of the first match of the str2 in str1 or -1 if str2 is nowhere to be found in str1. Returns an integer indicating the position of the first character for a character expression within another character expression, beginning from the leftmost character.

Parameters

Table plus

applyColStyleToCell	true
columnTypes	s,s,s,s
heading	0
multiple	false
enableSorting	false

Parameter name	Type	Required	Description
str1

...

String	Yes	Specifies a character expression to search for str2.
str2

...

String

Yes

Specifies a character expression to search for in str1.

Return

...

Type

numberNumber

...

Examples

Example 1

Code Block
wret = indexOf("This will return ?", "will"); print("Return " + wret);

Print Return 5

Example 2

Code Block
wret = indexOf("This will return ?", "Will"); print("Return " + wret);

Print Return -1

Example 3

Code Block
wret = indexOf("This will return ?", "This"); print("Return " + wret);

Print Return 0

Notes

Note
If the first occurrence of str2 is the first caracter of str1, indexOf( ) returns 0. If you need to find str2 multiple times, use substring( ) routine.

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