Instr()
Find a substring in a string and return its starting position. The function is case sensitive.
Syntax: byte = Instr( [startPos, ]1) Source as string, Find as string )
- startPos: Starting position in the main string, beginning from left at position 1 (optional)
- Source: Main character string to search in
- Find: Substring to find
- Returns: Position from left, starting with 1. 0 = not found.
Example:
dim s as string dim pos as byte s = "Hello World" pos = Instr(s,"lo") ' output: 4 pos = Instr(s,"world") ' output: 0 (not found)
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As of 2013.R1