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This is a documentation subpage for Template:Str find. It contains usage information, categories and other content that is not part of the original template page. |
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Contents
Usage
{{Str find|text|sub_string}} = Position of first appearance of sub_string in text.
Examples
In the examples, the string to be searched is <syntaxhighlight lang="text" class="" id="" style="" inline="1">Abcdefghijklm</syntaxhighlight>:
- A; 1
- a; -1
- def; 4
- klm; 11
- zyx; -1
- empty;klm;-1
- empty;empty; 1
- Case sensitive.
- Returns -1 if sub_string not found
- Character position is 1 based (not 0 based as usual in calculations).
- Warning: if sub_string is empty, then this routine will return 1 !!! This case will often have to be handled specially.
TemplateData
This is the TemplateData documentation for this template used by VisualEditor and other tools; see the monthly parameter usage report for this template.
TemplateData for Str find
<templatedata> {
"description": "A template to find the numeric position of first appearance of sub_string in text", "params": { "1": { "label": "Text", "description": "The text to search within", "type": "string", "required": true }, "2": { "label": "Sub_string", "description": "The string to be searched within the text", "type": "string", "required": true } }
} </templatedata>
See also