Gets the index of the first occurrence of a substring.
| Parameters |
Description |
searchString |
The string to be searched. |
| Return value |
Description |
int |
The index of the first occurrence of the regular
expression, or -1 if the search fails. |
Usage
This RegExp object defines
the search criteria.
Examples
This example searches for the string
moscow case-insensitive.
var cities = new String("Paris Moscow Tokyo");
var regexp = /(moscow)/i;
if (regexp.search(cities) > 0)
{
return "Found: " + regexp.toString();
} else {
return "Not found: " + regexp.toString();
}