Name

findfirstnotof — Searches string for the first non matching chars

Synopsis

integer findfirstnotof ( string STRING ,
  string CHARS );
 

Parameters

string STRING

string CHARS

Return

integer

the position of the first character in STRING that is not contained in CHARS.

Description

The findfirstnotof function searches the first element of string that doesn't match any character stored in chars and returns its position.

Usage

  findfirstnotof ("abcdefghi", "abcefghi") -> 3
  findfirstnotof ("aaaaa", "a") -> nil