@STRFIND

Use the @STRFIND function to determine the position of a string within a string column or else return zero if the string is not found. Optionally, @STRFIND can accept a starting position within the string.

For this function, Oracle GoldenGate supports the use of an escape sequence to represent characters in a string column in Unicode or in the native character encoding of the Microsoft Windows, UNIX, and Linux operating systems. The target column must be a SQL Unicode data type if any argument is supplied as Unicode.

This function does not support NCHAR or NVARCHAR data types.

Syntax

@STRFIND (string, 'search_string' [,  begin_position])

string: The string in which to search. This can be either the name of a character column or a literal string that is within single quote marks.
'search_string': The string for which to search. Enclose the search string within single quote marks.
begin_position: The byte position at which to begin searching.

Example

Assuming the string for the ACCT column is ABC123ABC, the following are possible results.

Function statement	Result
@STRFIND (ACCT, '23')	5
@STRFIND (ACCT, 'ZZ')	0
@STRFIND (ACCT, 'ABC', 2)	7 (because the search started at the second byte)