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Code SnippetFINDSTRING("ABC", "A", 1)

Here is the BOL expression...
Code SnippetFINDSTRING("New York, NY, NY", "NY", 1) Both give me the same error message. I even tried casting it to an integer with no luck. Any ideas?
Code Snippet(DT_I4) FINDSTRING("ABC" , "A" , 1)

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