The search() method searches a string for a specified value and returns the position of the match:
Example
var str = "Please locate where 'locate' occurs!";
var pos = str.search("locate");
var pos = str.search("locate");
Did You Notice?
The two methods, indexOf() and search(), are equal?
They accept the same arguments (parameters), and return the same value?
The two methods are NOT equal. These are the differences:
- The
search()method cannot take a second start position argument. - The
indexOf()method cannot take powerful search values (regular expressions).
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