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FUNCTIONS / STRING FUNCTIONS AND OPERATORS

Returns first starting index of the specified substring within string, or zero if it's not present.

Signatures & examples

strpos ( string text, substring text ) → integer
Returns first starting index of the specified substring within string, or zero if it's not present. (Same as position(substring in string), but note the reversed argument order.)
strpos('high', 'ig') → 2
Version history 1
  1. PG 12 → 13changed

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