String Object java.lang.String

Some useful methods

Return Type	Method Signiture	Description
String	string.substring(int position)	returns the substring starting at position, zero based
String	string.substring(int position, int length)	returns the substring length characters long starting at position, zero based
int	string.indexOf(string substring)	returns a zero based index to of where substring occurrs in string
int	string.indexOf(string substring, int startPosition)	returns a zero based index to of where substring occurrs in string starting at startPosition
boolean	string.startsWith(String substring)	true if the string starts with substring
boolean	string.endsWith(String substring)	true if the string ends with substring
char	string.charAt(int pos)	returns the character at a specified position

See java.lang.String documentation for more methods. Note that the java.lang.String class has changed in Java 1.4 so if your running a 1.3 JVM you won't be able to do some of the regular expression functions.

Examples
<cfset str = "hello">
<cfoutput>
str.substring(0,2) = #str.substring(0,2)# = he
str.indexOf("el") = #str.indexOf("el")# = 1
str.startsWith("he") = #str.startsWith("he")# = true </cfoutput>

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