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# TStrings.IndexOfName

Finds the index of a name in the name-value pairs.

## Declaration

`public function TStrings.IndexOfName(`
`const Name: String`
`):Integer;`

## Description

IndexOfName searches in the list of strings for a name-value pair with name part Name. If such a pair is found, it returns the index of the pair in the stringlist. If no such pair is found, the function returns -1. The search is done case-insensitive.

Remark: | Only the first occurrence of a matching name-value pair is returned. The returned position is zero-based, i.e. 0 indicates the first string in the list.

## See also

TStrings.IndexOf |  | Find a string in the list and return its position.
TStrings.IndexOfObject |  | Finds an object in the list and returns its index.
TStrings.Strings |  | Indexed access to teh strings in the list.