Question

                         (row number not stored in db)

------------------------
|      |     A   |     | (1)
------------------------
|      |     B   |     | (2)
------------------------
|      |     C   |     | (3)
------------------------ -----Page 1
|      |     D   |     | (4)
------------------------
|      |     E   |     | (5)
------------------------
|      |     F   |     | (6)
------------------------ -----Page 2
|      |     F   |     | (7)
------------------------
|      |     F   |     | (8)
------------------------
|      |     G   |     | (9) -----Page 3

i.e. a search for “F” would return 6.

Thank You.

trying to do the firstr part of this: How do I query a SQL database to return the first "page" containing the specified data?

Found these:
sequential row numbers from query

sqlite Retrieve Rownumber in sqlite

Answer 1

SELECT COUNT(*)
FROM tbl
WHERE letter < 'F'

(you’ll get the number minus one, so you would have to increment it by one afterwards)