Manuals/calci/FIND

FIND (text,textstring,num)

• $text$ is the text you want to find.
• $textstring$ is the text or string that contains the text you want to find.
• $num$ is the number to start the search.

Description

• FIND is used to locate the starting position of a search text in another string. ie, it will search the text inside another string and will return the starting position of the text inside the string.
• First character in $num$ is character number 1. By default $num$ is assumed to be 1 and is optional.
• FIND is used with languages that use the single-byte character set(SBCS).
• FINDB is used with languages that use the double-byte character set (DBCS).
• The default language of your computer will result in the return value

1. FIND counts each character. It wont depend on default language setting.
2. FINDB counts double-byte character as 2.

• FIND and FINDB are case sensitive. It won't allow wildcard characters.
• If $text$ is "" (NULL), FIND matches with the first character in the search string.

It will return ERROR when:

1.$text$ must not be wildcard characters.
2.If $text$ is not there in $textstring$
3.If $num$ is greater than the length of $textstring$.

See Also

• BESSELJ

References

Bessel Function