Advanced Excel Statistical - FIND Function

Description

FIND and FINDB locate one text string within a second text string, and return the number of the starting position of the first text string from the first character of the second text string.

FIND is intended for use with languages that use the single-byte character set (SBCS), whereas FINDB is intended for use with languages that use the double-byte character set (DBCS). The default language setting on your computer affects the return value as follows −

FIND always counts each character, whether single-byte or double-byte, as 1, no matter what the default language setting is
FINDB counts each double-byte character as 2 when you have enabled the editing of a language that supports DBCS and then set it as the default language. Otherwise, FINDB counts each character as 1

The languages that support DBCS include Japanese, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), and Korean.

Syntax

FIND (find_text, within_text, [start_num]) 
FINDB (find_text, within_text, [start_num])

Arguments

Argument	Description	Required/ Optional
Find_text	The text you want to find.	Required
Within_text	The text containing the text you want to find.	Required
Start_num	Specifies the character at which to start the search. The first character in within_text is character number 1. If you omit start_num, it is assumed to be 1.	OPtional

Argument

Description

Required/ Optional

Find_text

The text you want to find.

Required

Within_text

The text containing the text you want to find.

Required

Start_num

Specifies the character at which to start the search.

The first character in within_text is character number 1.

If you omit start_num, it is assumed to be 1.

OPtional

Notes

FIND and FINDB are case sensitive and don't allow wildcard characters. If you do not want to do a case sensitive search or use wildcard characters, you can use SEARCH and SEARCHB.
If find_text is "" (empty text), FIND matches the first character in the search string (that is, the character numbered start_num or 1).
Find_text cannot contain any wildcard characters.
Use start_num to skip a specified number of characters. FIND always returns the number of characters from the start of within_text, counting the characters you skip if start_num is greater than 1.
If find_text does not appear in within_text, FIND and FINDB return the #VALUE! error value.
If start_num is not greater than zero, FIND and FINDB return the #VALUE! error value.
If start_num is greater than the length of within_text, FIND and FINDB return the #VALUE! error value.

Applicability

Excel 2007, Excel 2010, Excel 2013, Excel 2016

Example

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