Searching special character using "FIND"

harshitha.narayan

Hi All,

Just want to clarify if I can use FIND function to identify a special character.

So I want to check if the string contain "@" ; the logic I am applying is:

Line item 2 = FIND("@xxx.com", Line item1, 1)

But it is not giving me the result. But works fine when I am setting the formula without "@".

Line item 2 = FIND("xxx.com", Line item1, 1) - this is working fine.

So I want to know that FIND does not identify the special characters is it?

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harshitha.narayan@sony.com Thanks for sharing...

I did not know, but indeed, if the text line-item is formatted as E-mail, and you have a different Display text associated, the FIND function try to search text in the "Display text" part and not the e-mail value:

Hope it helps

Alex

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Your Approach and formula is correct and will working fine as you mentioned.

And FIND can give the result for special character as well'

My display text is "Multi_Event@.com Selected"

Hope you got it.

Thanks,

harshitha.narayan@sony.com I did not encounter any issues with @ character using FIND function.

The function FIND can find special characters like @.

Can you give more explanations of what is in your case the expectation?

harshitha.narayan

Hello @alexpavel and @jagadishdash thank you for the reply. It is working fine for you both.

I shall check again from my end and get back.

harshitha.narayan

Hi @alexpavel and @jagadishdash,

I have checked on the format of Line item1 where I am finding the character. I noticed that I had selected text type as Email ID. I switched to text type to General. Post this change the FIND function is working properly.

Thank you!

harshitha.narayan@sony.com Thanks for sharing...

I did not know, but indeed, if the text line-item is formatted as E-mail, and you have a different Display text associated, the FIND function try to search text in the "Display text" part and not the e-mail value:

Hope it helps

Alex

harshitha.narayan

@alexpavel Sure noted!

Had kept the "Display text" part blank and had entered only the Email ID.

Hence it was not able to Find. Understood the error committed.

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