search()  String  instance method getterS2C Home  « Globals « String « search()

Description

Tries to locate a match between a regular expression and this String object.

• If a match is located returns the index of the regular expression.
• If no match is located -1 is returned.

• When you wish to know if a pattern is found in a string use the search() method.
  Similar to the regular expression RegExp.test() method.
• You get more information at the cost of speed by using the match() method.
  Similar to the regular expression RegExp.exec() method.

Syntax

Parameters

Examples

The code below searches for numerics in a string and returns the index position of the first found.

// Create a string variable.
var aStringToSearch = 'The children had 12 toys';

/*
 Search for numerics.
 /*
alert(aStringToSearch.search(/\d+/));

Related Tutorials

JavaScript Basic Tutorials - Lesson 8 - Strings

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