github.com/muratcelep/terraform@v1.1.0-beta2-not-internal-4/website/docs/language/functions/index_function.html.md (about) 1 --- 2 layout: "language" 3 page_title: "index - Functions - Configuration Language" 4 sidebar_current: "docs-funcs-collection-index" 5 description: |- 6 The index function finds the element index for a given value in a list. 7 --- 8 9 # `index` Function 10 11 `index` finds the element index for a given value in a list. 12 13 ```hcl 14 index(list, value) 15 ``` 16 17 The returned index is zero-based. This function produces an error if the given 18 value is not present in the list. 19 20 ## Examples 21 22 ``` 23 > index(["a", "b", "c"], "b") 24 1 25 ``` 26 27 ## Related Functions 28 29 * [`element`](./element.html) retrieves a particular element from a list given 30 its index.