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Locates the position where any of the characters in a search string occur in a string value.

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IdStrings

Pascal
function FindFirstOf(
    AFind: String; 
    AText: String
): Integer;
Parameters
Parameters 
Description 
AFind 
Values to be compared.
 
AText 
Data to searched. 
Returns

Integer - Position where a search string character was located.

Description

FindFirstOf is an Integer function that locates the position in AText where any one of the characters in AFind can be found. FindFirstOf will iteratively search for each character in AFind until all characters in AFind have compared to AText. The return value will contain the lowest index position for any of the characters in AFind, or 0 when none of the characters in AFind occur in AText.

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