Microsoft® JScript™
indexOf Method
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Description
Finds the first occurrence a substring within a String object.
Syntax
strVariable.indexOf(substring, startindex)
"String Literal".indexOf(substring, startindex)

The indexOf method syntax has these arguments:

Part Description
substring The substring to search for within the String object.
startindex An optional integer value specifying the index to begin searching within the String object. If omitted, searching begins at the beginning of the string.

Remarks
The indexOf method returns an integer value indicating the beginning of the substring within the String object. If the substring is not found, a -1 is returned.

If startindex is negative, startindex is treated as zero. If it is larger than the greatest character position index, it is treated as the largest possible index.

Searching is performed from left to right. Otherwise, this method is identical to lastIndexOf.

The following example illustrates the use of the indexOf method:

function IndexDemo(str2)
{
  var str1 = "BABEBIBOBUBABEBIBOBU"
  var s = str1.indexOf(str2);
  return(s);
}