STRPOS

Returns the index position of substring in string, or 0 if the substring isn't found. If the optional argument start is added, the function ignores any instances of substring that appear before the index position start.

Syntax

STRPOS ( string_expression, substring [, start_pos] ) 

Arguments

string_expression
A valid string expression.

substring A string expression that may be contained in string_expression.

start_pos The position to start reading from as a numeric value.

Return Type

Returns an INT64.

Examples

Examples in this section use the example blockchain.

The following example checks whether "d" is contained within each str record.

SELECT STRPOS(str, "ec", 3) FROM example;

Response:

SELECT STRPOS(str, "ec", 3) [STRING]
NULL
0
0
5