Purpose
Searches the source_string argument for occurrences of search_string.
Syntax
- TD_SYSFNLIB.
- Name of the database where the function is located.
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source_string
- A character string or string expression.
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search_string
- A string of characters that the function searches for in source_string.
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position
- Specifies that the search will begin at this position in source_string.
- If position is not specified, the search starts at the beginning of source_string.
- If position is negative, the function counts and searches backwards from the end of source_string. position cannot have a value of zero.
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occurrence
- Specifies which occurrence of search_string to find in source_string.
- If occurrence is not specified, the function searches for the first occurrence.
- If occurrence is greater than 1, the function searches for additional occurrences beginning with the second character in the previous occurrence. occurrence cannot be zero or a negative value.
