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FILEMAKER PRO HELP 912
Parameters
text - any text expression or text field
searchString - any text expression or text field representing the set of characters you want to find
Data type returned
number
Originated in
FileMaker Pro 6.0 or earlier
Description
This function is not case-sensitive.
Examples
PatternCount(“Mississippi”;“is”) returns 2.
PatternCount(“Mississippi”;“issi”) returns 1 (the function isn’t inclusive).
PatternCount(Attending;“Guest”) returns 1 if the Guest checkbox is one of the items
selected in the Attending field.
Related topics
Functions reference (category list)
Functions reference (alphabetical list)
About formulas
About functions
Defining calculation fields
Using operators in formulas
Position
Purpose
Returns the starting position of the specified occurrence of searchString in text.
Format
Position(text;searchString;start;occurrence)
Parameters
text - any text expression or text field
searchString - any text expression or text field representing the set of characters you want to
find.
start - any numeric expression, or field containing a number, representing the number of
characters from the start of the text string at which to begin the search.