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?

alexpavel

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

 

jagadishdash

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,

 

 

 

alexpavel

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

@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.