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JavaScript indexOf() Method: String Object

Description

The indexOf() method returns the index within the calling string object of the first occurrence of the specified value, starting the search at startIndex. It returns -1 if the value is not found.

Version

Implemented in JavaScript 1.0

Syntax

indexOf(searchValue, startIndex) 

Parameter

searchValue: A string representing the value to search for.

startIndex  : The location in the string to search the specified value. Location value is an integer between 0 and the length of the string. The default value is 0.

Example of String object: indexOf() Method

In the following web document indexOf() method is used to locate values in a given string.

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>JavaScript String object - indexOf() method example</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1 style="color: red">JavaScript String object : indexOf() method</h1>
<hr />
<script type="text/javascript">
//This is done to make the following JavaScript code compatible to XHTML. <![CDATA[
var Str="Brave new world"
document.write("The index of the first w from the beginning is " +
Str.indexOf("w")+"<br />")
document.write("The index of 'new' from the beginning is " +
Str.indexOf("new"))
//]]>
</script>
</body>
</html>

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Supported Browser

Internet Explorer 7 Firefox 3.6 Google Chrome 7 Safari 5.0.1 Opera 10
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See also:

JavaScript Core objects, methods, properties.

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