find

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Description

Description:

Searches for an array element within array or a string within a string. Returns the 0 based index on success or -1 if not found. Test is cASe-seNsItiVE

Groups:

Uncategorised

Syntax

Syntax:

array find x

Parameters:

array: Array - array to search in

x: Anything - array element to find

Return Value:

Number - 0 based position of the first array element that matches x, -1 if not found

Alternative Syntax

Syntax:

string find x           (since ["Arma 3","Arma3",127,126674,"Development"])

Parameters:

string: String - string to search in

x: String - string to find

Return Value:

Number - 0 based position of the first sequence of characters that matches x, -1 if not found

Examples

Example 1:

["Apples","Oranges","Pears"] find "Oranges"; //result is 1 [1,[2],[[3]]] find [[3]]; //result is 2

Example 2:

if (magazines player find "Strela" >= 0) then {hint "You've got Strela!"};

Example 3:

hint str ("japa is the man!" find "the man!"); //8

Additional Information

See also:

setresizereverseselectintoArraytoStringforEachcountpushBackpushBackUniqueapplydeleteAtdeleteRangeappendsortparamparamsarrayIntersectsplitStringjoinString

Notes

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Posted on January 4, 2015 - 09:38 (UTC)

Heeeere's Johnny!

Using nil on either side of find will make the whole statement return Nothing: _array = [1,2,nil,4,5]; _result = _array find nil; hintSilent str (isNil "_result"); //true _result = nil find 1; hintSilent str (isNil "_result"); //true

Posted on April 10, 2015 - 17:01 (UTC)

Kenoxite

Find doesn't work with multidimensional arrays in OFP/CWA. It will always returns -1.

Posted on May 17, 2016 - 14:21 (UTC)

BaerMitUmlaut

This command is unreliable/broken when it comes to some non-ASCII characters (as of Arma 3 1.58): "abcßdef" find "c" -> 2 "abcßdef" find "ß" -> 3 "abcßdef" find "d" -> 5