Looks for the first match of pattern in the string s. If it finds a match, then find returns the indices of s where this occurrence starts and ends, as well as any matches after that. Otherwise, it returns nil. A third, optional numerical argument init specifies where to start the search; its default value is 1 and can be negative. A value of true as a fourth, optional argument plain turns off the pattern matching facilities, so the function does a plain "find substring" operation, with no characters in the pattern being considered "magic". Note that if plain is given, then init must be given as well.
Looks for the first match of pattern in the string s. If it finds a match, then find returns the indices of s where this occurrence starts and ends, as well as any matches after that. Otherwise, it returns nil. A third, optional numerical argument init specifies where to start the search; its default value is 1 and can be negative. A value of true as a fourth, optional argument plain turns off the pattern matching facilities, so the function does a plain "find substring" operation, with no characters in the pattern being considered "magic". Note that if
plain
is given, theninit
must be given as well.