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FindOneOf

Finds the first occurrence of any one of a set of characters in a string, from a specified start position. The search is case-sensitive.

The position of the first member of set found in string; or 0, if no member of set is found in string.

String functions

FindOneOf(set, string [, start ])

Find, Compare, REFind

Parameter	Description
set	A string or a variable that contains one. String that contains one or more characters to search for.
string	A string or a variable that contains one. String in which to search.
start	Start position of search.

<cfset stringToSearch = "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.">
#find("the",stringToSearch)#<br>
#find("the",stringToSearch,35)#<br>
#find("no such substring",stringToSearch)#<br>
<br>
#findnocase("the",stringToSearch)#<br>
#findnocase("the",stringToSearch,5)#<br>
#findnocase("no such substring",stringToSearch)#<br>
<br>
#findoneof("aeiou",stringToSearch)#<br>
#findoneof("aeiou",stringToSearch,4)#<br>
#findoneof("@%^*()",stringToSearch)#<br>


Contents > CFML Reference > ColdFusion Functions > FindOneOf

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No screen name said on May 18, 2005 at 1:13 PM :

Is there a way to search for the double uplifted commas (") using the Find() function? Is there some sort of escape character?

jrunrandy said on Jul 6, 2005 at 7:58 AM :

Use "" (that is, two double quotation marks).

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