Strfind

strfind

Description:

Function strfind search for a sub string in a string.

This function name starts with a lowercase letter.

Parameters:

(const string[], const sub[], bool:ignorecase = false,pos = 0)

string

string

The string you want to search in (haystack).

string

sub

The string you want to search for (needle).

bool

ignorecase

When set to true, the case doesn't matter - HeLLo is the same as Hello. When false, they're not the same.

int

pos

The offset to start searching from.

Return Values:

The number of characters before the sub string (the sub string's start position) or -1 if it's not found.

Examples:

Example 1

if(strfind("Are you in here?", "you", true) != -1) //returns 4, because the start of 'you' (y) is at index 4 in the string
{
    SendClientMessageToAll(0xFFFFFFFF, "I found you!");
}

Related Functions

The following functions may be useful, as they are related to this function in one way or another.

• strlen: Get the length of a string.
• strpack: Pack a string. Packed strings use 75% less memory.
• strunpack: Unpack a string.
• strcat: Concatenates (joins together) two strings into the destination string.
• strmid: Extract a range of characters from a string.
• strins: Insert a string into another string.
• strdel: Delete part of a string.
• strcmp: Compares two strings to see if they are the same.
• strval: Convert a string to an integer.
• valstr: Convert an integer into a string.
• ispacked: Checks if the given string is packed.
• uudecode: Decode an UU-encoded string.
• uuencode: Encode a string to an UU-decoded string.
• memcpy: Copy bytes from one location to another.