# xarray.IndexVariable.searchsorted

#### IndexVariable.searchsorted(v, side='left', sorter=None)[[source]](https://github.com/pydata/xarray/blob/main/xarray/computation/ops.py#L129-L130)

Find indices where elements of v should be inserted in a to maintain order.

For full documentation, see numpy.searchsorted.

#### SEE ALSO
[`numpy.searchsorted`](https://numpy.org/doc/stable/reference/generated/numpy.searchsorted.html#numpy.searchsorted)
: equivalent function