>> Why don't you just try it?
>
> Because I'm a newbie, and I don't always trust my code, yet.

The most easiest statement, which doesn't need to be "your" code, could
look like:

select position('a' in 'b') from rdb$database

or

select position('a' in 'a') from rdb$database



What do both statements return? ;-)



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Thomas Steinmaurer
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http://blog.upscene.com/thomas/

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