Find  
Description
Finds the first occurrence of a substring in a string, from a specified start position. The search is case-sensitive.
 
Returns
A number; the position of substring in string; or 0, if substring is not in string.
 
Category
String functions
 
Function syntax
Find(substring, string [, start ])
 
See also
FindNoCase, Compare, FindOneOf, REFind, Replace
 
Parameters
 
Parameter      Description
substring A string or a variable that contains one. String for which to search.
string A string or a variable that contains one. String in which to search.
start Start position of search.
 
Example
<cfoutput>
   <cfset stringToSearch = "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.">
   #find("the",stringToSearch)#<br>
   #find("the",stringToSearch,35)#<br>
   #find("no such substring",stringToSearch)#<br>
   <br>
   #findnocase("the",stringToSearch)#<br>
   #findnocase("the",stringToSearch,5)#<br>
   #findnocase("no such substring",stringToSearch)#<br>
   <br>
   #findoneof("aeiou",stringToSearch)#<br>
   #findoneof("aeiou",stringToSearch,4)#<br>
   #findoneof("@%^*()",stringToSearch)#<br>
</cfoutput>
substring  
A string or a variable that contains one. String for which to search.
string  
A string or a variable that contains one. String in which to search.
start  
Start position of search.