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INSTR

Returns the position of the first occurrence of substring substr in string str. This is the same as the two-argument form of LOCATE(), except that the order of the arguments is reversed.

Syntax

INSTR(<str>, <substr>)

Arguments

ArgumentsDescription
<str>The string.
<substr>The substring.

Return Type

BIGINT

Examples

SELECT INSTR('foobarbar', 'bar');
+---------------------------+
| INSTR('foobarbar', 'bar') |
+---------------------------+
| 4 |
+---------------------------+

SELECT INSTR('xbar', 'foobar');
+-------------------------+
| INSTR('xbar', 'foobar') |
+-------------------------+
| 0 |
+-------------------------+
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