# Pos of Substring in String

**URL:** https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/pos-of-substring-in-string/3814
**Category:** Feature Requests
**Created:** [January 18, 2007, 11:18am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/pos-of-substring-in-string/3814 "2007-01-18T11:18:47Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author: ![deleted\_user](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/user_avatar/www.finalbuilder.com/deleted_user/32/937_2.png) [@deleted\_user](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/deleted_user)
#### Post date: [January 18, 2007, 11:18am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/pos-of-substring-in-string/3814/1 "2007-01-18T11:18:47Z")

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Hi  
Thanks for the String Manipulations in FB5.  
It would be nice to have this (I already suggested this in the past):  
like Pos in Delphi :  
i := Pos(Substring, String); //find if Substring can be found in String, and return its position or 0  
  
Daphna Levin

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### Author: ![angus](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/b3f665/32.png) [@angus](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/angus)
#### Post date: [January 18, 2007, 11:04am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/pos-of-substring-in-string/3814/2 "2007-01-18T11:04:40Z")

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Hi Daphna,  
  
Thanks for the suggestion. For what it’s worth, you can already do this in VBScript or JScript inside a script event.  
  
VBScript:  
  
i = InStr(String, Substring) ’ 0 if not found, or one-based index if found (same as Delphi)  
  
JScript:  
  
i = String.indexOf(Substring); // -1 if not found, or zero-based index if found

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### Author: ![stevage](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/bc8723/32.png) [@stevage](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/stevage)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2007, 1:49am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/pos-of-substring-in-string/3814/3 "2007-01-19T01:49:07Z")

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You can also do it without script, but it’s not pretty 🙂  
  
Steve