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Pos   built-in function

The Pos function returns the offset of the first occurrence of a target string within another string.

If the target string is not found, 0 is returned.

Note: some Rexx environments support an Index function. This function has the same behavior as the Pos function, but the first two arguments are reversed, i.e.:


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Last updated on: 8 Aug 2002