.. highlightlang:: us

.. _strfind:

strfind
=======

.. index:: strfind

.. us.tag  strfind ENGLISH STR

:ref:`strfind`
searches for the occurence of a substring in a scalar string.

.. function::  rvPositions = strfind(ssString, ssFind)

.. us.return

**Return Value**

*rvPositions* is a vector with the positions
of the first character of *ssFind* in *ssString*. If the find string
is not found, the function returns 0.

.. us.params

**Parameters**

.. uparam:: ssString

   *ssString* is a scalar string.

.. uparam:: ssFind

   *ssFind* is a scalar string.

.. us.example

**Example**

::

   strfind("This is not a string", "is")
   3  6

.. seealso::
   :ref:`overview-strings`,
   :ref:`strtok`,
   :ref:`strfindreplace`,
   :ref:`strextract`

:sub:`id-1472647`