INSTR - a string processing function that returns the character position of the first occurrence of a string in another string Syntax INSTR([start,]stringexpression1,stringexpression2) - stringexpression1 is the string to be searched - stringexpression2 is the string to look for - If the optional start argument is used to begin the search beyond the first character of stringexpression1, it must be a numeric-expression with an integer value between 1 and 32,767.