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- [Configure The Timezone](postgres/configure-the-timezone.md)
- [Count Records By Type](postgres/count-records-by-type.md)
- [Extracting Nested JSON Data](postgres/extracting-nested-json-data.md)
- [String Contains Another String](postgres/string-contains-another-string.md)
- [Timestamp Functions](postgres/timestamp-functions.md)
- [Toggling The Pager In PSQL](postgres/toggling-the-pager-in-psql.md)
- [Turning Timing On](postgres/turning-timing-on.md)

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# String Contains Another String
You can check if a string *contains* another string using the `position`
function.
```sql
> select position('One' in 'One Two Three');
position
----------
1
```
It returns the 1-based index of the first character of the first match of
that substring.
```sql
> select position('Four' in 'One Two Three');
position
----------
0
```
If the substring doesn't appear within the string, then the result is 0.
Thus, you can determine if a string *contains* another string by checking if
the value resulting from `position` is greater than 0.