Name Rascal/Libraries/Prelude/String/findFirst

Synopsis Find the first occurrence of a string in another string.

Function int findFirst(str subject, str find)

Usage import String;

Description Find the first occurrence of string find in string subject. The result is either a position in subject or -1 when find is not found.

Also see findAll and findLast.

Examples

rascal>import String;
ok
rascal>findFirst("abracadabra", "a");
int: 0
rascal>findFirst("abracadabra", "bra");
int: 1
rascal>findFirst("abracadabra", "e");
int: -1

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