CFLib.org – Common Function Library Project

Description:
Finds all occurrences of a substring in a string, from a specified start position. The search is case-sensitive. Returns an array of each starting position.

Return Values:
Returns an array.

Example:

<cfset mySTR = "123445566445566123445566123">
<cfset thisSTR = findAll("4455",mySTR)>
<cfdump var="#thisSTR#"/>

Parameters:

Full UDF Source:

<cfscript>
/**
 * Finds all occurrences of a substring in a string.
 * Fix by RCamden to make start optional.
 * 
 * @param substring 	 String to search for. (Required)
 * @param string 	 String to parse. (Required)
 * @param start 	 Starting position. Defaults to 1. (Optional)
 * @return Returns an array. 
 * @author Jeremy Rottman (&#114;&#111;&#116;&#116;&#109;&#97;&#110;&#106;&#64;&#104;&#115;&#109;&#111;&#118;&#101;&#46;&#99;&#111;&#109;) 
 * @version 2, July 29, 2008 
 */
function findALL(substring,string) {
	var findArray = arrayNew(1);	
	var start = 1;	
	var posStart = "";
	var i = 1;
	var newPos = "";
	
	if(arrayLen(arguments) gte 3) start = arguments[3];

	posStart = find(substring,string,start);
	
	if(posStart GT 0){
		findArray[i] = posStart;
		while(posStart gt 0 ){
			posStart = posStart + 1;
			newPos = find(substring,string,posStart);
			if(newPos gt 0){
				i = i + 1;
				findArray[i] = newPos;
				posStart = newPos;
			}else{
				posStart = 0;
			}
		}
	}else{
		return 0;
	}
	return findArray;
}
</cfscript>