[asterisk-users] Finding the position of a character in a string

[Raj Mathur ( राज माथुर )]

On Tuesday 24 Jul 2012, Ishfaq Malik wrote:
> It there a native asterisk dialplan function which will tell me the
> position of a specific character in a given string?
> 
> eg if I wanted to find what position the '@' was at in ${SIPURI}

Worst case scenario: write a loop to iterate over each character and 
stop at first match.

If you have ODBC installed: your SQL back-end should be able to perform 
this function for you.

See if the dialplan function FIELDNUM can be used.

There must be many more ways.

Regards,

-- Raj
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