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Thursday, February 27, 2014

Search for Text inside Strings in javascript



Here in this article, we will discuss how we can Search for Text inside Strings in javascript.

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When working with text strings, sometimes you need to determine if a string contains some specific substring, and if it does, you need to determine where in the string that substring occurs.

The following task searches for a substring in another string stored in a variable and displays the position where that substring is found:

1. Open a new HTML document in your preferred HTML or text editor.

2. Create the body of the document with opening and closing body tags:

<body>

</body>

3. Insert a script block in the body of the document:

<script language="JavaScript">
<!--
// -->
</script>

4. Create a variable named myVariable and assign the value "Hello Raj" to it:

var myVariable = "Hello Raj";

5. Create a second variable named therePlace and assign the results of searching for "Raj" to it:

var rajPlace = myVariable.search("Raj");

6. Display the results of the search so that the final page looks like below.

<body>
<script language="JavaScript">
<!--
var myVariable = "Hello Raj";
var therePlace = myVariable.search("Raj");
document.write(rajPlace);
// -->
</script>
</body>

7. Save the file and close it.

8. Open the file in a browser. You should see the number 6 displayed in the browser.