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indexOf() Method

This method returns the position of the first occurrence of a substring in a string.

stringVar.indexOf(substring [, offset])

Returns

The position of the first occurrence of a substring in a string variable.

Usage

stringVar.indexOf() searches the entire substring in a string variable. The substring parameter may be a single character. If offset is not given, searching starts at position 0. If it is given, searching starts at the specified position.

For example,

var string = "what a string";
string.indexOf("a")

returns the position of the first a appearing in the string, which in this example is 2. Similarly,

var magicWord = "abracadabra";
var secondA = magicWord.indexOf("a", 1);

returns 3, the index of the first a to be found in the string when starting from the second character of the string.

NOTE:  The indexOf() method is case-sensitive.

See Also

charAt() Method
Clib.strchr() Method
Clib.strpbrk() Method
lastIndexOf() Method
string.replace() Method