functionfind

Find first occurrence of a string within another string

Extends from Modelica.Icons.Function (Icon for functions).

Information

Syntax

index = Strings.find(string, searchString);
index = Strings.find(string, searchString, startIndex=1,
                     caseSensitive=true);

Description

Finds first occurrence of "searchString" within "string" and return the corresponding index. Start search at index "startIndex" (default = 1). If the optional argument "caseSensitive" is false, lower and upper case are ignored for the search. If "searchString" is not found, a value of "0" is returned.

It is intended for ASCII, the case-insensitive count is not guaranteed to work for UTF-8.

Inputs

Type	Name	Default	Description
String	string		String that is analyzed
String	searchString		String that is searched for in string
Integer	startIndex	1	Start search at index startIndex
Boolean	caseSensitive	true	= false, if lower and upper case are ignored for the search

Outputs

Type	Name	Default	Description
Integer	index		Index of the beginning of the first occurrence of 'searchString' within 'string', or zero if not present