sgapiStrPos(%%haystack,%%needle,%%offset)

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This is equivalent to the strpos function in PHP. This function returns the numeric position of the first occurrence of %%needle string in the %%haystack string. If the optional %%offset parameter is specified, the search will start this number of characters counted from the beginning of the string. Offset cannot be negative.

Examples

The below example would return the numeric position 0.

%%haystack = 'abc';
%%needle = 'a';

%%output .= sgapiStrPos(%%haystack, %%needle);

The below example uses the offset parameter to ignore the first instance of the needle 'a.' This would return the numeric position 4.

%%haystack = 'abc abc';
%%needle = 'a';

%%output .= sgapiStrPos(%%haystack, %%needle, %%offset = 1);

To see an example or learn more other PHP functions and PHP programming, visit PHP Documentation.

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