# Suggestion: findall to work on strings

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/suggestion-findall-to-work-on-strings/23143>\
**Category:** Internals & Design\
**Created:** [April 14, 2019, 4:13pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/suggestion-findall-to-work-on-strings/23143 "2019-04-14T16:13:25Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Ahmed\_Salih](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/ahmed_salih/32/206579_2.png) [@Ahmed\_Salih](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Ahmed_Salih)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2019, 4:13pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/suggestion-findall-to-work-on-strings/23143/1 "2019-04-14T16:13:25Z")

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Just a small suggestion regarding “findall” functionality in Julia. Maybe it could be possible to do it in a way so that it would work on strings as well?

See [Find index of all occurences of a string](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/find-index-of-all-occurences-of-a-string/23044) for reference of why this might be helpful.

Kind regards

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**Author:** ![Tamas\_Papp](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/tamas_papp/32/25949_2.png) [@Tamas\_Papp](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Tamas_Papp)\
**Post date:** [April 15, 2019, 4:52am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/suggestion-findall-to-work-on-strings/23143/2 "2019-04-15T04:52:48Z")

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This may get lost unless you open an issue on Github.

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**Author:** ![Ahmed\_Salih](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/ahmed_salih/32/206579_2.png) [@Ahmed\_Salih](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Ahmed_Salih)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2019, 9:50am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/suggestion-findall-to-work-on-strings/23143/3 "2019-04-16T09:50:41Z")

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Sure, I am bit new to this, would I just go to [https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia](https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia) and post there or, should I find the developer of findall functionality?

Kind regards

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**Author:** ![Tamas\_Papp](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/tamas_papp/32/25949_2.png) [@Tamas\_Papp](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Tamas_Papp)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2019, 10:08am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/suggestion-findall-to-work-on-strings/23143/4 "2019-04-16T10:08:11Z")

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I would suggest that you go to [Issues · JuliaLang/julia · GitHub](https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues), open a new issue, describing the functionality you are missing, perhaps with an example.

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**Author:** ![carstenbauer](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/carstenbauer/32/4981_2.png) [@carstenbauer](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/carstenbauer)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2019, 10:25am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/suggestion-findall-to-work-on-strings/23143/5 "2019-04-16T10:25:19Z")

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For reference, I suggest you link the issue here after you created it.

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**Author:** ![Ahmed\_Salih](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/ahmed_salih/32/206579_2.png) [@Ahmed\_Salih](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Ahmed_Salih)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2019, 6:24pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/suggestion-findall-to-work-on-strings/23143/6 "2019-04-21T18:24:51Z")

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Done, took me some time, but got around to it now.

[https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/31788](https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/31788)

Sorry if you were waiting.

Kind regards