Forms Processor Advanced Commands

index($haystack,"needle",[begin]);

• $haystack - The source data you are searching through, usually it is a file that has been slurped into a variable.
  
  
• needle - The string or character you are searching for.
  
  
• begin - An optional offset into the source string at which the index command starts searching.
  
  

Example:

#find a colon in the string:
# 'somename:age'

$haystack="Joe Blow:37";

$offset = index($haystack,":");
$name = substr($haystack,0,$offset);

$age = substr($haystack,$offset+1,length($haystack)-$offset);

format screen
$name you are $age years old!
.