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FIELD
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The FIELD() function returns the first index of the str argument in the str1, str2, … list, or 0 if it doesn’t exist.
Syntax
FIELD (str, str1, str2, ...)
Remarks
If all arguments are strings, then all arguments are compared as strings.
If str is NULL, the return value is 0 because NULL fails equality comparison with any value.
Arguments
-
str: any string or binary object -
str1,str2, … : list of strings or binary objects
Return Type
Integer
Example
SELECT FIELD('abra', 'cadabra', 'abra', 'abracadabra');
+-------------------------------------------------+
| FIELD('abra', 'cadabra', 'abra', 'abracadabra') |
+-------------------------------------------------+
| 2 |
+-------------------------------------------------+Warning
Implicit Collation
When character_ is set to utf8, string literals with characters using 4-byte encoding are implicitly assigned binary collation and processed as a sequence of bytes rather than characters.utf8mb4 character set.
For more information, refer to Implicit Collation in Special Cases.
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