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find

Finds the first occurrence of a substring in a string, from a specified start position. If substring is not in string, returns zero. The search is case-sensitive.

find(substring, string [, start])
returns numeric

Argument Reference

Name Type Required Default Description
substring string Yes   The string you are looking for.
string string Yes   The string to search in.
start numeric No 1 The position from which to start searching in the string

Find apple in the string

Returns the index of apple in the string.

find("apple", "An apple a day keeps the doctor away.")

Expected Result: 4