Forward search for string(s) within a string tuple.

tuple_strstr searches within the strings of the input tuple T1 for the strings of the input tuple T2. Both input tuples may only consist of strings. Otherwise tuple_strstr returns an error. If T1 contains only one string, all strings of T2 are searched in it. Thus the output tuple consists of as many elements as T2. Whenever a searched string has been found, the position of its first occurence gets stored in the output tuple Position (positions in strings are counted starting with 0). If a string can not be found, -1 will be returned instead of its position. If both input tuples show the same number of elements, the strings are searched elementwise. I.e., the first string of T2 is searched within the first string of T1, the second string of T2 is searched within the second string of T1 and so on. The results of the elementwise searches are returned with Position that contains as many elements as T1 and T2. If T2 only contains one string, this is searched within all strings of T1. Thus in this case Position consists of as many elements as T1. If both input tuples contain more than one element and the number of elements differs for the input tuples, tuple_strstr returns an error.

tuple_strstr is reentrant and processed without parallelization.

tuple_strrstr, tuple_strlen, tuple_strchr, tuple_strrchr, tuple_str_first_n, tuple_str_last_n, tuple_split, tuple_environment

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