CHARINDEX (SQL Server Compact Edition)
Returns the starting position of the specified expression in a character string.
- expression1
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An expression that contains the sequence of characters to be found. The expression1 argument is an expression of the ntext type or a data type that can be implicitly converted to nvarchar.
- expression2
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An expression that is typically a column searched for the specified sequence. The expression2 argument is an expression of the ntext type or a data type that can be implicitly converted to nvarchar.
- start_location
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The character position from which to start searching for expression1 in expression2. If start_location is not given, is a negative number, or is 0, the search starts at the beginning of expression2. The start_location argument can be tinyint, smallint, int, or bigint.
The following example searches for the expression "an" from the last names of the employees in a database.
SELECT [Last Name], CHARINDEX('an', [Last Name]) AS Position
FROM Employees
This is the result set:
Last Name..............Position ------------------------------ Davolio 0 Fuller 0 Leverling 0 Peacock 0 Buchanan 5 Suyama 0 King 0 Callahan 7 Dodsworth 0 Hellstern 0 Smith 0 Patterson 0 Brid 0 Martin 0 Pereira 0
