Pos

Pos returns the position of the first occurrence of Pattern in string S.

The first position in S is 1, the second position in S is 2 e.t.c.

By default, the search for Pattern starts at position 1 in the string S,

Pattern can have any number of characters.

Pos will return zero (0) -

• If Pattern is not found.

• If either Pattern or S is an empty string with a length of zero (0).

• If Pattern is longer than S.

Pos is case-sensitive so the characters are matched exactly.

Please also refer to the function PosEx which performs a similar function, but allows you to offset the starting search position.

Declaration: function Pos( const Pattern, S : string) : integer;

Several examples follow.