Re: position(text,text) function

The correct way would be:

select position('el' in 'Hello');

Dorin

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