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CHARINDEX (Transact-SQL) : Syntax Arguments

CHARINDEX is a Transact-SQL function that searches for one character expression inside another and returns the starting position if found. It takes in an expression to find, an expression to search, and optionally a start location. It returns an integer representing the starting position or NULL if either expression is NULL. It performs comparisons based on collation and returns 0 if the expression is not found.

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CHARINDEX (Transact-SQL) : Syntax Arguments

CHARINDEX is a Transact-SQL function that searches for one character expression inside another and returns the starting position if found. It takes in an expression to find, an expression to search, and optionally a start location. It returns an integer representing the starting position or NULL if either expression is NULL. It performs comparisons based on collation and returns 0 if the expression is not found.

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CHARINDEX (Transact-SQL)

 07/24/2017
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APPLIES TO:  SQL Server  Azure SQL Database  Azure Synapse Analytics
(SQL DW)  Parallel Data Warehouse

This function searches for one character expression inside a second character
expression, returning the starting position of the first expression if found.

 Transact-SQL Syntax Conventions

Syntax
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CHARINDEX ( expressionToFind , expressionToSearch [ , start_location ] )

Arguments
expressionToFind
A character expression containing the sequence to find. expressionToFind has an
8000 character limit.

expressionToSearch
A character expression to search.
start_location
An integer or bigint expression at which the search starts. If start_location is not
specified, has a negative value, or has a zero (0) value, the search starts at the
beginning of expressionToSearch.

Return types
bigint if expressionToSearch has an nvarchar(max), varbinary(max),
or varchar(max) data type; int otherwise.

Remarks
If either the expressionToFind or expressionToSearch expression has a Unicode data
type (nchar or nvarchar), and the other expression does not, the CHARINDEX
function converts that other expression to a Unicode data type. CHARINDEX cannot
be used with image, ntext, or text data types.

If either the expressionToFind or expressionToSearch expression has a NULL value,


CHARINDEX returns NULL.

If CHARINDEX does not find expressionToFind within expressionToSearch,


CHARINDEX returns 0.

CHARINDEX performs comparisons based on the input collation. To perform a


comparison in a specified collation, use COLLATE to apply an explicit collation to
the input.

The starting position returned is 1-based, not 0-based.

0x0000 (char(0)) is an undefined character in Windows collations and cannot be


included in CHARINDEX.

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