Template:Str find

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Lua String-based templates

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

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TemplateData for Str find

A template to find the numeric position of first appearance of ''sub_string'' in ''text''

Template parameters

Parameter		Description	Type	Status
Text	1	The text to search within	String	required
Sub_string	2	The string to be searched within the text	String	required