SEARCH(ftext, otext, snum)
where
- Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle ftext} is the text to search in original string,
- Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle otext} is the original string from which mentioned text is to be searched, and
- Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle snum} is an optional argument that specifies the character position to start the search.
SEARCH() identifies the occurrence of specified text string from the original string and returns the starting position of the matched string.
Description
SEARCH(ftext, otext, snum)
For Example,
SEARCH("COME", "WELCOME",1) returns 4
- SEARCH function can be used to find text within a text. SEARCH counts 1 byte per character. SEARCH works with the languages that use 'Single Byte Character Set' (SBCS).
- Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle otext} can be any string containing characters, numbers, symbols, blank spaces etc.
- Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle ftext} and Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle otext} when directly entered in the command, should be enclosed in double quotes (e.g. "Name").
- Argument Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle snum} is optional. If omitted, Calci assumes to be 1.
- Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle snum} should be an integer > 0, else Calci displays #NULL error message.
- If Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle snum} > 'length of text', Calci displays #N/A error message.
- If string specified in Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle ftext} is not a part of the reference string Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle otxt} , Calci returns #N/A error string.
- SEARCH function is not case sensitive.
Examples
| SEARCH | ||
| Happy New Year!!! | ||
=SEARCH("A", A1) : Returns 3 as output.
=SEARCH("New", A2) : Returns 7 as output. Space character is also counted.
=SEARCH("Year",A2,6) : Search is started from 6th position. Returns 11 as output.
Space character is also counted.
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