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Syntax UINT = INSTR(target as STRING,search as STRING,OPT pos = 1 as UINT) UINT = WINSTR(target as WSTRING,search as WSTRING,OPT pos = 1 as UINT) Description Finds the first occurrence of a search string in a target string. Parameters target - String to perform the search on. search - String to search for. pos - Optional ones based starting position to begin the search. Return value Returns the ones based position of the first occurrence of the search string in the target string. Returns 0 if the search string could not be found. Remarks Parameters of INSTR are different from other languages. Example usage A$ = "A string to search for something" |