DelphiBasics AnsiPos Function Find the position of one string in another StrUtils unit

function AnsiPos(const Needle, HayStack string):Integer;

Description The AnsiPos function looks for a substring Needle in a string HayStack, returning the position in the string of the first occurence.   All Ansi commands support multi-byte and accented characters.   If the string is not found, 0 is returned.   The search is case sensitive. Notes Note that strings start at position 1. Multi-byte character sets are operating system defined. For example, Oriental versions of Windows uses multi-byte characters to support thier very large set of primitives ('letters'). Related commands AnsiIndexStr Compares a string with a list of strings - returns match index AnsiMatchStr Returns true if a string exactly matches one of a list of strings LastDelimiter Find the last position of selected characters in a string StrScan Searches for a specific character in a constant string  Download this web site as a Windows program.

Example code : Find a word in a sentence var   position : Integer; begin   // Look for the word 'Cat' in a sentence   // Note : that this search is case sensitive, so that   //        the first 'cat' is not matched   position := AnsiPos('Cat', 'The cat sat on the Cat mat');   if position = 0   then ShowMessage('''Cat'' not found in the sentence')   else ShowMessage('''Cat'' was found at character '+IntToStr(position)); end; Show full unit code   'Cat' was found at character 20

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