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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<helpdocument version="1.0">
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+<meta>
+ <topic id="textsbasicshared03120401xml" indexer="include" status="PUBLISH">
+ <title id="tit" xml-lang="en-US">InStr Function</title>
+ <filename>/text/sbasic/shared/03120401.xhp</filename>
+ </topic>
+</meta>
+
+<body>
+
+
+<section id="instr">
+<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3155934">
+ <bookmark_value>InStr function</bookmark_value>
+</bookmark>
+
+
+<paragraph id="hd_id3155934" role="heading" level="1" xml-lang="en-US"><link href="text/sbasic/shared/03120401.xhp" name="InStr Function">InStr Function</link></paragraph>
+<paragraph id="par_id3153990" role="paragraph" xml-lang="en-US">Returns the position of a string within another string.</paragraph>
+</section>
+<paragraph id="par_id3147303" role="paragraph" xml-lang="en-US">The Instr function returns the position at which the match was found. If the string was not found, the function returns 0.</paragraph>
+
+<paragraph id="hd_id3145090" role="heading" level="2" xml-lang="en-US">Syntax:</paragraph>
+<bascode>
+<paragraph id="par_id3146957" role="bascode" xml-lang="en-US">InStr ([Start As Long,] Text1 As String, Text2 As String[, Compare])</paragraph>
+</bascode>
+
+<paragraph id="hd_id3148538" role="heading" level="2" xml-lang="en-US">Return value:</paragraph>
+<paragraph id="par_id3149763" role="paragraph" xml-lang="en-US">Integer</paragraph>
+
+<paragraph id="hd_id3148473" role="heading" level="2" xml-lang="en-US">Parameters:</paragraph>
+<paragraph id="par_id3153126" role="paragraph" xml-lang="en-US"> <emph>Start: </emph>A numeric expression that marks the position in a string where the search for the specified substring starts. If you omit this parameter, the search starts at the first character of the string. The maximum allowed value is 65535.<comment>see i17928</comment></paragraph>
+<paragraph id="par_id3145609" role="paragraph" xml-lang="en-US"> <emph>Text1:</emph> The string expression that you want to search.</paragraph>
+<paragraph id="par_id3147559" role="paragraph" xml-lang="en-US"> <emph>Text2:</emph> The string expression that you want to search for.</paragraph>
+<paragraph id="par_id3154758" role="paragraph" xml-lang="en-US"> <emph>Compare:</emph> Optional numeric expression that defines the type of comparison. The value of this parameter can be 0 or 1. The default value of 1 specifies a text comparison that is not case-sensitive. The value of 0 specifies a binary comparison that is case-sensitive.<comment>fixes i17929</comment></paragraph>
+<paragraph id="par_id3153361" role="paragraph" xml-lang="en-US">To avoid a run-time error, do not set the Compare parameter if the first return parameter is omitted.</paragraph>
+<embed href="text/sbasic/shared/00000003.xhp#errorcode"/>
+<embed href="text/sbasic/shared/00000003.xhp#err5"/>
+
+<paragraph id="hd_id3154366" role="heading" level="2" xml-lang="en-US">Example:</paragraph>
+<bascode>
+<paragraph id="par_idm1341612352" role="bascode" localize="false" xml-lang="en-US">Sub ExamplePosition</paragraph>
+<paragraph id="par_idm1341611120" role="bascode" localize="false" xml-lang="en-US">Dim sInput As String</paragraph>
+<paragraph id="par_idm1341609888" role="bascode" localize="false" xml-lang="en-US">Dim iPos As Integer</paragraph>
+<paragraph id="par_id3144760" role="bascode" xml-lang="en-US"> sInput = "Office"</paragraph>
+<paragraph id="par_id3154125" role="bascode" xml-lang="en-US"> iPos = Instr(sInput,"c")</paragraph>
+<paragraph id="par_idm1341605120" role="bascode" localize="false" xml-lang="en-US"> Print iPos</paragraph>
+<paragraph id="par_idm1341603888" role="bascode" localize="false" xml-lang="en-US">End Sub</paragraph>
+</bascode>
+</body>
+
+</helpdocument>