Library code snippets
Finding a string inside a larger string
By David Nishimoto, published on 15 Apr 2002
Explains how to find a string inside of a bigger string
<script language="javascript1.1">
var sSupersetString="abcdefg";
var sSubsetString="abc";
var lPosition=sSupersetString.indexOf(sSubsetString);
alert(lPosition);
/*
Returns the value 2 meaning abc was found
starting with the third character.
*/
</script>
Related articles
Related discussion
-
An old chestnut: Scrolling DIVs. Can I use onmouseover/onmouseout?
by Skunk (1 replies)
-
code highlighting using jquery
by pjm (1 replies)
-
Problem when using TemplateField and ImageButton
by mhuff84 (14 replies)
-
dropdownlist for country,state and city
by jack_tom (2 replies)
-
popup window in vb.net... how it's work?..
by yf2009 (6 replies)
Related podcasts
-
jQuery in ASP.NET
In this episode Chris Brandsma, Rick Strahl, Dave Ward, Bertrand Le Roy, Scott Koon, and Steven Harman discuss Microsoft's jQuery in ASP.NET announcement.This episode of the Alt.NET Podcast is brought to you by LLBLGen Pro, the most mature O/R mapper and code generator out there.Are you loo...
Events coming up
-
Oct
28
Web Standards Group (Sydney)
North Sydney, Australia
TBA
hi there :)
first of all, i want to thank you for this code. and i want to ask you to do me a favour! can you please post the find function to find a string in a rich text box? i need it badly :(
thank you again for your help
HI there!
can you tell us whether one can input a string from a text box and then use that input to search in pre-defined strings?
Thanks,
Manos
This thread is for discussions of Finding a string inside a larger string.