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SEARCH/SEARCHB Function

The SEARCH/SEARCHB function is one of the text and data functions. Is used to return the location of the specified substring in a string. The SEARCH function is intended for languages that use the single-byte character set (SBCS), while SEARCHB - for languages that use the double-byte character set (DBCS) like Japanese, Chinese, Korean etc.

Syntax

SEARCH(find_text, within_text, start_num)

SEARCHB(find_text, within_text, start_num)

The SEARCH/SEARCHB function has the following arguments:

Argument Description
find_text The substring to find.
within_text The string to search within.
start_num The position to start searching from. It is an optional argument. If it is omitted, the function will perform the search from the beginning of within_text.

Notes

The SEARCH/SEARCHB function is NOT case-sensitive.

If the function does not find the matches, it will return a #VALUE! error.

How to apply the SEARCH/SEARCHB function.

Examples

The figure below displays the result returned by the SEARCH function.

SEARCH Function

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