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PATINDEX (Azure Stream Analytics)

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Returns the starting position of the first occurrence of a pattern in a specified expression, or 0 if the pattern is not found, on all valid nvarchar(max) data types.

Syntax

PATINDEX ( '%pattern%' , expression )

Arguments

pattern

A character expression that contains the sequence to be found. Wildcard characters can be used; however, the % character must come before and follow pattern (except when searching for first or last characters). pattern is an expression of the character string data type category. pattern is limited to 8000 characters.

expression

An expression, typically a column that is searched for the specified pattern. Where the expression is of the nvarchar(max) data type.

Return Types

bigint

Examples

SELECT TollId, EntryTime, LicensePlate, PATINDEX ( '%100%',LicensePlate )
FROM Input TIMESTAMP BY EntryTime