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Finds the first occurrence of a substring in a string, from a specified start position. The search is case-sensitive. 
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A number; the position of substring in string; or 0, if substring is not in string.
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String functions
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    <td valign="top" colspan="2" class="description"><span class="title">Function syntax</span><pre>Find(substring, string [, start ])
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    <td valign="top" colspan="2" class="description"><span class="title">See also</span>
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FindNoCase, Compare, FindOneOf, REFind, Replace
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    <td valign="top" colspan="2" class="description"><span class="title">Example</span><pre>&lt;cfoutput&gt;
   &lt;cfset stringToSearch = &quot;The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.&quot;&gt;
   #find(&quot;the&quot;,stringToSearch)#&lt;br&gt;
   #find(&quot;the&quot;,stringToSearch,35)#&lt;br&gt;
   #find(&quot;no such substring&quot;,stringToSearch)#&lt;br&gt;
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   #findnocase(&quot;the&quot;,stringToSearch)#&lt;br&gt;
   #findnocase(&quot;the&quot;,stringToSearch,5)#&lt;br&gt;
   #findnocase(&quot;no such substring&quot;,stringToSearch)#&lt;br&gt;
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   #findoneof(&quot;aeiou&quot;,stringToSearch)#&lt;br&gt;
   #findoneof(&quot;aeiou&quot;,stringToSearch,4)#&lt;br&gt;
   #findoneof(&quot;@%^*()&quot;,stringToSearch)#&lt;br&gt;
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<p>A string or a variable that contains one. String for which to search.</p>

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<p>A string or a variable that contains one. String in which to search.</p>

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<p>Start position of search.</p>

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