How do I find the position of substring in PowerShell after position x?

Question

Is there a simple way to do so; I can't find any. Am I obliged to scan character by character?

I don't want a string as return, but a position so do not suggest SubString.

Answer 1

Yes, you can. The IndexOf() method has an overload that takes a startIndex argument:

PS C:\> "WordsWordsWords".IndexOf("Words")
0
PS C:\> "WordsWordsWords".IndexOf("Words", 2)
5

In the second example, we look for the index of the substring "Words" starting after character index 2.