User Guide

FindNoCase 587
FindNoCase
Description
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-insensitive.
Returns
The position of substring in string; or 0, if substring is not in string.
Category
String functions
Function syntax
FindNoCase(substring, string [, start ])
See also
Find
, CompareNoCase, FindOneOf, REFind, Replace
Parameters
Example
In the following example, the Find function returns 33 as the first position found because "the" is
lowercase. The
FindNoCase function returns 1 as the first postion because the case is ignored.
<cfset stringToSearch = "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.">
stringToSearch = <cfoutput>#stringToSearch#</cfoutput><br>
<p>
Find Function:<br>
Find("the",stringToSearch) returns <cfoutput>#find("the",stringToSearch)#</
cfoutput><br>
<p>
FindNoCase Function:<br>
FindNoCase("the",stringToSearch) returns
<cfoutput>#FindNoCase("the",stringToSearch)#</cfoutput>
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.