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HP Business BASIC/XL Reference Manual

POS 

The POS function returns the starting character of a string embedded in
another string.  It will return 0 if the specified substring is not
found.

Syntax 

POS(S1$,S2$)

Parameters 

S1$              A string expression indicating the string that the
                 substring is to occur in.

S2$              A string expression indicating the substring.  The
                 function returns the position of the first character of
                 S2$.

Examples 

     10 A = POS("abcde","fg")     !A = 0
     20 B = POS("abcde","cd")     !B = 3

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