Manuals/calci/SEARCH
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SEARCH(ftext, otext, snum)
where
- is the text to search in original string,
- is the original string from which mentioned text is to be searched, and
- is an optional argument that specifies the character position to start the search.
is the text to search in original string,
is the original string from which mentioned text is to be searched, and
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).
- can be any string containing characters, numbers, symbols, blank spaces etc.
- and when directly entered in the command, should be enclosed in double quotes (e.g. "Name").
- Argument 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.