# strpos — DuckDB 1.3.2

Returns location of first occurrence of needle in haystack, counting from 1. Returns 0 if no match found

- Reference: /products/haybarn/functions/releases/duckdb-1.3.2/strpos/
- JSON: /products/haybarn/functions/api/v1/duckdb-1.3.2/functions/strpos.json
- Snapshot ID: duckdb-1.3.2
- Engine: duckdb v1.3.2
- Source ID: 0b83e5d2f6
- Binary SHA-256: 9a2ae2a4d5dbd07a5b0cb30c502d65014825d34924c681eb3faa7647e7cd2b6f
- Captured: 2026-09-05T18:37:33.818Z
- Source: https://github.com/duckdb/duckdb/releases/tag/v1.3.2
- Loaded extensions: autocomplete, core_functions, icu, json, parquet, shell
- Alias of: instr

## Interpretation

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## Overloads

### overload-b3bc3ffdfeb076e1

Kind: scalar. Parameter order: catalog-order.

```text
strpos(haystack: VARCHAR, needle: VARCHAR) → BIGINT
```

Link: /products/haybarn/functions/releases/duckdb-1.3.2/strpos/#overload-b3bc3ffdfeb076e1

| Argument | Catalog type | Calling mode |
| --- | --- | --- |
| haystack | VARCHAR | not recorded |
| needle | VARCHAR | not recorded |

Declared return type: BIGINT. Variadic argument type: none declared.
Stability: CONSISTENT. Declared side effects: false.


## Guide recipes

No guide recipes.

## Engine catalog examples

Source examples may require additional data or extensions. Expressions are wrapped in SELECT; execution verification is not recorded.

Reported for: overload-b3bc3ffdfeb076e1

```sql
SELECT instr('test test','es');
```

## Runnable examples

Executed successfully in Haybarn WASM 1.5.5-rc3. Sample data and guide examples are separate from the original catalog.

```sql
SELECT strpos('test test', 'es');
```

## Additional DuckDB documentation

- [Text Functions](https://duckdb.org/docs/current/sql/functions/text#text-functions-and-operators)
- [Text Functions](https://duckdb.org/docs/current/sql/functions/text.html#text-functions-and-operators)

## In other engines

### Apache Hive: locate()



Apache Hive:

```sql
LOCATE('a', x)
```

Haybarn / DuckDB:

```sql
STRPOS(x, 'a')
```

Translation from [SQLGlot](https://github.com/tobymao/sqlglot/blob/3086608e6fd4c41c02dfba47171608d2b193fce2/tests/dialects/test_hive.py#L693).

### BigQuery: instr()



BigQuery:

```sql
SELECT INSTR('foo@example.com', '@')
```

Haybarn / DuckDB:

```sql
SELECT STRPOS('foo@example.com', '@')
```

Translation from [SQLGlot](https://github.com/tobymao/sqlglot/blob/3086608e6fd4c41c02dfba47171608d2b193fce2/tests/dialects/test_bigquery.py#L1994).

### Snowflake: charindex()

Uses strpos as part of a larger rewrite.

Snowflake:

```sql
SELECT CHARINDEX('sub', 'testsubstring', p)
```

Haybarn / DuckDB:

```sql
SELECT CASE WHEN STRPOS(SUBSTRING('testsubstring', CASE WHEN p <= 0 THEN 1 ELSE p END), 'sub') = 0 THEN 0 ELSE STRPOS(SUBSTRING('testsubstring', CASE WHEN p <= 0 THEN 1 ELSE p END), 'sub') + CASE WHEN p <= 0 THEN 1 ELSE p END - 1 END
```

Translation from [SQLGlot](https://github.com/tobymao/sqlglot/blob/3086608e6fd4c41c02dfba47171608d2b193fce2/tests/dialects/test_snowflake.py#L6897).

## Observed availability

| Snapshot | Observed | Overloads | JSON |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| haybarn-1.5.5-rc3 | present | 1 | [reference](/products/haybarn/functions/api/v1/haybarn-1.5.5-rc3/functions/strpos.json) |
| duckdb-1.5.5 | present | 1 | [reference](/products/haybarn/functions/api/v1/duckdb-1.5.5/functions/strpos.json) |
| duckdb-1.4.4 | present | 1 | [reference](/products/haybarn/functions/api/v1/duckdb-1.4.4/functions/strpos.json) |
| duckdb-1.3.2 | present | 1 | [reference](/products/haybarn/functions/api/v1/duckdb-1.3.2/functions/strpos.json) |

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