JSTL Function fn:indexOf Example

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In this post, I will help you undestand how to use the <fn:indexOf> tag in the JSTL function tags library with code example.

The fn:indexOf function returns the index of the first occurrence of a substring in a given string. The index starts at ‘0’.

 

JSTL <fn:indexOf> Syntax:

${fn:indexOf(<var containing string to search for substring>,<substring>)}

 

JSTL <fn:indexOf> Example:

The following code snippet searches for a substring ‘JSTL’ and prints its index in a given string.

<%@ page language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"
	pageEncoding="ISO-8859-1"%>
<%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core" prefix="c"%>
<%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/functions" prefix="fn"%>
<html>
  <head>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
    <title>fn:indexOf Demo</title>
  </head>
  <body>
	<h1>fn:indexOf Demo</h1>

	<c:set var="text" value="The JSTL Functions Are Great." />
	<c:out value="${text}"/>
	<p>Index of 'JSTL' from above text is: ${fn:indexOf(text,'JSTL')}</p>
  </body>
</html>

 

Output:

JSTL function fn-indexOf

 

Other JSTL Function Tags:

contains  |  containsIgnoreCase  |  endsWith |  escapeXml  |  join  |  length  |  replace  |  split  |  startsWith  |  substring  |  substringAfter  |  substringBefore  |  toLowercase  |  toUpperCase  |  trim


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