1 INSTR The INSTR function searches for a substring within a string, and returns the position of the substring's starting character. Example Y% = INSTR(1%, Alpha$, "JKLMN") 2 Syntax int-var = INSTR(int-exp, str-exp1, str-exp2) The search begins at the location specified by int-exp, looking for the first occurrence of str-exp2 in str-exp1.