Formulas and Functions Help
- Welcome
- Formulas
- Functions
- Date and time functions
- Duration functions
- Engineering functions
-
Financial functions
- ACCRINT
- ACCRINTM
- BONDDURATION
- BONDMDURATION
- COUPDAYBS
- COUPDAYS
- COUPDAYSNC
- COUPNUM
- CUMIPMT
- CUMPRINC
- CURRENCY
- CURRENCYCODE
- CURRENCYCONVERT
- CURRENCYH
- DB
- DDB
- DISC
- EFFECT
- FV
- INTRATE
- IPMT
- IRR
- ISPMT
- MIRR
- NOMINAL
- NPER
- NPV
- PMT
- PPMT
- PRICE
- PRICEDISC
- PRICEMAT
- PV
- RATE
- RECEIVED
- SLN
- STOCK
- STOCKH
- SYD
- VDB
- XIRR
- XNPV
- YIELD
- YIELDDISC
- YIELDMAT
- Logical and information functions
-
Numeric functions
- ABS
- CEILING
- COMBIN
- EVEN
- EXP
- FACT
- FACTDOUBLE
- FLOOR
- GCD
- INT
- LCM
- LN
- LOG
- LOG10
- MDETERM
- MINVERSE
- MMULT
- MOD
- MROUND
- MULTINOMIAL
- MUNIT
- ODD
- PI
- POLYNOMIAL
- POWER
- PRODUCT
- QUOTIENT
- RAND
- RANDARRAY
- RANDBETWEEN
- ROMAN
- ROUND
- ROUNDDOWN
- ROUNDUP
- SEQUENCE
- SERIESSUM
- SIGN
- SQRT
- SQRTPI
- SUBTOTAL
- SUM
- SUMIF
- SUMIFS
- SUMPRODUCT
- SUMSQ
- SUMX2MY2
- SUMX2PY2
- SUMXMY2
- TRUNC
-
Reference functions
- ADDRESS
- AREAS
- CHOOSE
- CHOOSECOLS
- CHOOSEROWS
- COLUMN
- COLUMNS
- DROP
- EXPAND
- FILTER
- FORMULATEXT
- GETPIVOTDATA
- HLOOKUP
- HSTACK
- HYPERLINK
- INDEX
- INDIRECT
- INTERSECT.RANGES
- LOOKUP
- MATCH
- OFFSET
- REFERENCE.NAME
- ROW
- ROWS
- SORT
- SORTBY
- TAKE
- TOCOL
- TOROW
- TRANSPOSE
- UNION.RANGES
- UNIQUE
- VLOOKUP
- VSTACK
- WRAPCOLS
- WRAPROWS
- XLOOKUP
- XMATCH
-
Statistical functions
- AVEDEV
- AVERAGE
- AVERAGEA
- AVERAGEIF
- AVERAGEIFS
- BETADIST
- BETAINV
- BINOMDIST
- CHIDIST
- CHIINV
- CHITEST
- CONFIDENCE
- CORREL
- COUNT
- COUNTA
- COUNTBLANK
- COUNTIF
- COUNTIFS
- COVAR
- CRITBINOM
- DEVSQ
- EXPONDIST
- FDIST
- FINV
- FORECAST
- FREQUENCY
- GAMMADIST
- GAMMAINV
- GAMMALN
- GEOMEAN
- HARMEAN
- INTERCEPT
- LARGE
- LINEST
- LOGINV
- LOGNORMDIST
- MAX
- MAXA
- MAXIFS
- MEDIAN
- MIN
- MINA
- MINIFS
- MODE
- NEGBINOMDIST
- NORMDIST
- NORMINV
- NORMSDIST
- NORMSINV
- PERCENTILE
- PERCENTRANK
- PERMUT
- POISSON
- PROB
- QUARTILE
- RANK
- SLOPE
- SMALL
- STANDARDIZE
- STDEV
- STDEVA
- STDEVP
- STDEVPA
- TDIST
- TINV
- TTEST
- VAR
- VARA
- VARP
- VARPA
- WEIBULL
- ZTEST
- Text functions
- Trigonometric functions
- Copyright and trademarks
[]![[]](https://help.apple.com/assets/69AF220FB83737E52408B980/69AF25E3CCD56EDE83064898/en_GB/784be3dfed809d4b6bb7cc427d8c5f01.png){kind=link}
SEARCH
The SEARCH function returns the starting position of one string value within another, ignoring case and allowing wildcards.
SEARCH(search-string, source-string, start-pos)
search-string: The string value to search for.
source-string: The string value to search within.
start-pos: An optional number value specifying the position within the string at which the action should begin. start-pos must be greater than or equal to 1 and less than or equal to the number of characters in source-string.
Notes
Wildcards are permitted in search-string. In search-string, use an * (asterisk) to match multiple characters or a ? (question mark) to match any single character in source-string. You can also use a ~ (tilde) to specify that the following character should be matched rather than used as a wildcard.
Specifying start-pos permits you to begin the search for search-string within, rather than at the beginning of, source-string. This is particularly useful if source-string may contain multiple instances of search-string and you wish to determine the starting position of other than the first instance. If start-pos is omitted, it is assumed to be 1.
To have case considered in your search, use the FIND function.
Examples |
|---|
=SEARCH("ra", "abracadabra") returns 3; the first occurrence of the string "ra" starts at the third character in "abracadabra". =SEARCH("ra","abracadabra", 5) returns 10, the position of the first occurrence of the string "ra" when you start looking at position 5. =SEARCH("*lock", "capslock") returns 1, because the asterisk at the beginning of the search string matches all the characters before "lock". =SEARCH("*lok", "capslock") returns an error, because the string "lok" does not exist in "capslock". =SEARCH("?lock", "capslock") returns 4, because the question mark matches the one character immediately preceding "lock". =SEARCH("l*k", "capslock") returns 5, because the asterisk matches all the characters between the "l" and "k". =SEARCH("~?", "Capslock on? No.") returns 12 because the tilde means to interpret the next character (the question mark) literally, not as a wildcard, and the question mark is the 12th character. =SEARCH(REGEX("([A-Z0-9a-z._%+-]+)@([A-Za-z0-9.-]+\.[A-Za-z]{2,4})"), "Where does marina@example.com start?") returns 12, the starting position of the first email in the source string. |