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| Property/method value type: | Number primitive | ||||||||
| JavaScript syntax: | - | myString.indexOf(aSearchString) | |||||||
| - | myString.indexOf(aSearchString, aPosition) | ||||||||
| Argument list: | aPosition | An optional valid character position within the string to indicate the search start | |||||||
| aSearchString | A string to search for within the String object | ||||||||
Returns a value indicating the location of the search string within the receiving String object.
If the search string is not found, the value -1 is returned.
You can indicate a starting position within the target string and if that argument is missing, the whole string will be searched. The same happens if you put the value 0 into the second parameter.
<HTML>
<HEAD>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<SCRIPT>
myString = "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ";
myIndex = myString.indexOf("MN");
document.write(myString.substr(myIndex));
</SCRIPT>
</BODY>
</HTML>| See also: | String.prototype |
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