Re: position(text,text) function

Many thanks for all of the assistance on this question.

I can't say I've ever seen the "a in b" syntax in postgres, but
you live and learn. ;-)

Thanks again.

Karl.

In article <slrn9loctm.qsr.karl@azrael.tecc.co.uk>, 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.
>