Manuals/calci/SEARCHB

SEARCHB(Text,Within_text, Start_num)

where,

Text - is the text string to extract.

Within_text- represents the text, find from Text.

Start_num - the character number in Within_text to start.

SEARCHB locate one text string within a second text string, and returns the number of the starting position of the first string from the first character of the second text string. SEARCHB is intended for use with languages that use the double-byte character set (DBCS).

If Start_num < 0, SEARCHB returns #ERROR.

If Start_num > length of Text, SEARCHB returns #ERROR.

If Within_text not found , it returns #ERROR.

If Start_num not defined then it returns the length of Text.

SEARCHB

Lets see an example in (Column1, Row2)

=SEARCHB("S", R1C1, 3)

SEARCHB returns 6.

Lets see an another example in (Column1,Row3)

=SEARCHB("I",R1C1)

SEARCHB returns 8.

Consider an example in (Column1, Row4)