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indexOf
Description
Returns the position of a substring, index starting from 0.
Usage
Client side: Y
Server side: Y
Syntax
Integer indexOf(String string, String subString)
Argument
string
The string to be searched. The argument can be any string, if string is null, -1 will be returned.
subString
The string to search. The argument can be any string, if it is null, -1 will be returned.
Return
If the string argument occurs as a substring within this object, then the index of the first character of the first such substring is returned; if it does not occur as a subString, -1 is returned.
Example
indexOf("Hello", "He")
returns 0.
indexOf("Hello", "wor")
returns -1.
See also
String category