<font size="3">The correct way would be:<br /><br /> select position('el' in 'Hello');<br /><br /> Dorin<br /><br /> At
02:27PM 7/23/01 +0000, Karl Orbell wrote:<br /><blockquote cite="cite" type="cite">I'm having trouble using the
positionfunction, it's a simple built-in function.<br /><br /> It returns the index of a substring within a main
string.<br/><br /> But, I just can't get it to work, it always gives this silly parser error.<br /> I've tried it in a
varietyof ways with variables instead of constants casting <br /> to text and using it in other contexts, (ie. in
functions,not just in a <br /> select). What am I doing wrong? Is this not the correct syntax for a two <br />
argumentfunction?<br /><br /> test=# select position('hello','el');<br /> ERROR: parser: parse error at or near ","<br
/><br/><br /> Karl Orbell.<br /><br /><br /> ---------------------------(end of
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