Searching for a string in text

[andromedia]

How do you search for a string in a chunk of text? It's something like the "Find" command in notepad or IE...

[kurtsimons]

if instr("abcdeft","b") then

end if

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instr will return 0 if it does not find a match and in this case it will return 2.

[kurtsimons]

there if also a "like function" and a replace function

[kedaman]

like operator you mean, yes it's faster than using instr if you don't need to return a specific position

IF "abcdefghijk" like "*fg*" then msgbox "fg found"

Replace function doesnt do the trick, it only replaces, But ubound of the array of a split will return the amount of items found, although it's slow.