KINDEX

KINDEX

Searches a character expression for a string of characters

Category: DBCS

Syntax
Arguments
Details
See Also

Syntax

KINDEX(source, excerpt)

Arguments

source

specifies the character expression to search.

excerpt

specifies the string of characters to search for in the character expression.

Tip:

Enclose a literal string of characters in quotation marks.

Details

The KINDEX function searches source, from left to right, for the first occurrence of the string specified in excerpt, and returns the position in source of the string's first character. If the string is not found in source, KINDEX returns a value of 0. If there are multiple occurrences of the string, KINDEX returns only the position of the first occurrence.

See Also

Functions:

KINDEXC

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