Question

I’m pasting the exact strings that javascript prints:

string: "testare atasament fisier,tip nota - reamintire (1),Diverse,Telefon,Fisier,tip nota Azom" without the ""

substring: "tip nota - reamintire (1)" again without the ""

just writing those “” to show that there are no empty spaces anywhere funny (also checked in the code)

The result of

string.search(substring);

is always -1, how come? which character is messing up the search?

note that i don’t use the names string and substring for the variables in my actual code

Answer 1

It worked for me – using indexOf

"testare atasament fisier,tip nota - reamintire (1),Diverse,Telefon,Fisier,tip nota Azom"
.indexOf("tip nota - reamintire (1)");

yields

25

search takes a regular expression where indexOf takes a string.

The parenthesis inside of “tip nota – reamintire (1)” act as a group, you would have to escape them for it to match an actual parenthesis.