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<title id="tit">Text Functions</title>
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<h1 id="hd_id3145389"><variable id="head_text"><link href="text/scalc/01/04060110.xhp">Text Functions</link></variable></h1>
<paragraph id="par_id3152986" role="paragraph"><variable id="texttext">This section contains descriptions of the <emph>Text</emph> functions. </variable></paragraph>
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<h2 id="hd_id291624454173529">Using double quotation marks in formulas</h2>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id891624454058773">To include a text string in a formula, place the text string between two double quotation marks (") and Calc takes the characters in the string without attempting to interpret them. For example, the formula <input>="Hello world!"</input> displays the text string <literal>Hello world!</literal> in the cell, with no surrounding double quotation marks.</paragraph>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id461624454425320">The more complex formula <input>=CONCATENATE("Life is really simple, "; "but we insist on making it complicated "; "(Confucius).")</input> concatenates three individual strings in double quotation marks, outputting <literal>Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated (Confucius).</literal></paragraph>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id711624454477483">To place a literal double quotation mark within a string inside a formula, two methods can be used:</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="par_id541624454496424" role="listitem">You can "escape" the double quotation mark with an additional double quotation mark, and Calc treats the escaped double quotation mark as a literal value. For example, the formula <input>="My name is ""John Doe""."</input> outputs the string <literal>My name is "John Doe".</literal> Another simple example is the formula <input>=UNICODE("""")</input> which returns <literal>34</literal>, the decimal value of the Unicode quotation mark character (U+0022) — here the first and fourth double quotation marks indicate the beginning and end of the string, while the second double quotation mark escapes the third.</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="par_id21624454513641" role="listitem">You can use the CHAR function or the UNICHAR function to insert a double quotation mark. For example, the formula <input>=UNICHAR(34) & "The Catcher in the Rye" & UNICHAR(34) & " is a famous book by J. D. Salinger."</input> displays the string <literal>"The Catcher in the Rye" is a famous book by J. D. Salinger.</literal></paragraph>
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<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id401624454547945">Be aware that Calc's AutoCorrect function may modify double quotation marks. AutoCorrect should not change the double quotation marks within formula cells but may change those used in non-formula cells containing text. For example, if you copy a string that is surrounded by some other form of typographical double quotation marks, such as the left double quotation mark (U+201C) and the right double quotation mark (U+201D), and then paste into a formula cell, an error may result. Open the <emph>Double Quotes</emph> area of the <menuitem>Tools - AutoCorrect Options - Localized Options</menuitem> dialog to set the characters used to automatically correct the start and end typographical double quotation marks. Uncheck the <menuitem>Replace</menuitem> toggle button to disable the feature.</paragraph>
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<h2 id="hd_id451721571883016">Empty string and blank cells</h2>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id241721571890240"><variable id="stringblank">Cells with the empty string ("") are not equivalent to blank cells. When searching or calculating with text, the empty string "" is the text with length zero.</variable></paragraph>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id451721571895265">For example, when the formula in A1 returns the empty string "", the following applies:</paragraph>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id591721571900225"><input>=ISBLANK(A1)</input> returns FALSE. The cell is not blank.</paragraph>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id781721571904769"><input>=ISFORMULA(A1)</input> returns TRUE. The cell is a formula.</paragraph>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id671721571909081"><input>=ISLOGICAL(A1)</input> returns FALSE. Not a logical value.
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<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id791721571916704"><input>=ISNONTEXT(A1)</input> returns FALSE. The cell has the empty string.</paragraph>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id91721571920288"><input>=ISNUMBER(A1)</input> returns FALSE. Not a number.</paragraph>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id821721571924250"><input>=ISTEXT(A1)</input> returns TRUE. The cell has the empty string, calculated by a formula.</paragraph>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id71721571927654"><input>=LEN(A1)</input> returns 0. The length of the empty string is 0.</paragraph>
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<bookmark_value>LEFTB function</bookmark_value>
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<h2 id="hd_id2947083"><variable id="leftbvar"><link href="text/scalc/01/04060110.xhp#leftb">LEFTB</link></variable></h2>
<paragraph id="par_id2953622" role="paragraph"><ahelp hid="HID_FUNC_LEFTB">Returns the first characters of a DBCS text.</ahelp></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="par_id2946786" role="code">LEFTB("Text" [; Number_bytes])</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_id2947274" role="paragraph"><emph>Text</emph> is the text where the initial partial words are to be determined.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_id2953152" role="paragraph"><emph>Number_bytes</emph> (optional) specifies the number of characters you want LEFTB to extract, based on bytes. If this parameter is not defined, one character is returned.</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="par_id2949141" role="paragraph"><item type="input">=LEFTB("中国";1)</item> returns " " (1 byte is only half a DBCS character and a space character is returned instead).</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_id2949151" role="paragraph"><item type="input">=LEFTB("中国";2)</item> returns "中" (2 bytes constitute one complete DBCS character).</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_id2949161" role="paragraph"><item type="input">=LEFTB("中国";3)</item> returns "中 " (3 bytes constitute one DBCS character and a half; the last character returned is therefore a space character).</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_id2949171" role="paragraph"><item type="input">=LEFTB("中国";4)</item> returns "中国" (4 bytes constitute two complete DBCS characters).</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_id2949181" role="paragraph"><item type="input">=LEFTB("office";3)</item> returns "off" (3 non-DBCS characters each consisting of 1 byte).</paragraph>
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<bookmark_value>LENB function</bookmark_value>
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<h2 id="hd_id2956110"><variable id="lenbvar"><link href="text/scalc/01/04060110.xhp#lenb">LENB</link></variable></h2>
<paragraph id="par_id2950147" role="paragraph"><ahelp hid="HID_FUNC_LENB">For double-byte character set (DBCS) languages, returns the number of bytes used to represent the characters in a text string.</ahelp></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="par_id2954063" role="code">LENB("Text")</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_id2946894" role="paragraph"><emph>Text</emph> is the text whose length is to be determined.</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="par_id2956018" role="paragraph"><item type="input">LENB("中")</item> returns 2 (1 DBCS character consisting of 2 bytes).</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_id2956028" role="paragraph"><item type="input">LENB("中国")</item> returns 4 (2 DBCS characters each consisting of 2 bytes).</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_id2956038" role="paragraph"><item type="input">LENB("office")</item> returns 6 (6 non-DBCS characters each consisting of 1 byte).</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_id2956008" role="paragraph"> <item type="input">=LENB("Good Afternoon")</item> returns 14.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_id2954300" role="paragraph"> <item type="input">=LENB(12345.67)</item> returns 8.</paragraph>
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<bookmark_value>MID function</bookmark_value>
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<h2 id="hd_id3154589">MID</h2>
<paragraph id="par_id3154938" role="paragraph"><ahelp hid="HID_FUNC_TEIL">Returns a text string of a text. The parameters specify the starting position and the number of characters.</ahelp></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="par_id3150526" role="code">MID("Text"; Start; Number)</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_id3148820" role="paragraph"> <emph>Text</emph> is the text containing the characters to extract.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_id3150774" role="paragraph"> <emph>Start</emph> is the position of the first character in the text to extract.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_id3153063" role="paragraph"> <emph>Number</emph> specifies the number of characters in the part of the text.</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="par_id3158407" role="paragraph"> <item type="input">=MID("office";2;2)</item> returns ff.</paragraph>
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<bookmark_value>MIDB function</bookmark_value>
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<bookmark branch="hid/SC_HID_FUNC_MIDB" id="bm_id2955392" localize="false"/>
<h2 id="hd_id2954589"><variable id="midbvar"><link href="text/scalc/01/04060110.xhp#midb">MIDB</link></variable></h2>
<paragraph id="par_id2954938" role="paragraph"><ahelp hid="HID_FUNC_MIDB">Returns a text string of a DBCS text. The parameters specify the starting position and the number of characters.</ahelp></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="par_id2950526" role="code">MIDB("Text"; Start; Number_bytes)</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_id2948820" role="paragraph"><emph>Text</emph> is the text containing the characters to extract.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_id2950774" role="paragraph"><emph>Start</emph> is the position of the first character in the text to extract.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_id2953063" role="paragraph"><emph>Number_bytes</emph> specifies the number of characters MIDB will return from text, in bytes.</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="par_id2958417" role="paragraph"><item type="input">=MIDB("中国";1;0)</item> returns "" (0 bytes is always an empty string).</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_id2958427" role="paragraph"><item type="input">=MIDB("中国";1;1)</item> returns " " (1 byte is only half a DBCS character and therefore the result is a space character).</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_id2958437" role="paragraph"><item type="input">=MIDB("中国";1;2)</item> returns "中" (2 bytes constitute one complete DBCS character).</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_id2958447" role="paragraph"><item type="input">=MIDB("中国";1;3)</item> returns "中 " (3 bytes constitute one and a half DBCS character; the last byte results in a space character).</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_id2958457" role="paragraph"><item type="input">=MIDB("中国";1;4)</item> returns "中国" (4 bytes constitute two complete DBCS characters).</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_id2958467" role="paragraph"><item type="input">=MIDB("中国";2;1)</item> returns " " (byte position 2 is not at the beginning of a character in a DBCS string; 1 space character is returned).</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_id2958477" role="paragraph"><item type="input">=MIDB("中国";2;2)</item> returns " " (byte position 2 points to the last half of the first character in the DBCS string; the 2 bytes asked for therefore constitutes the last half of the first character and the first half of the second character in the string; 2 space characters are therefore returned).</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_id2958487" role="paragraph"><item type="input">=MIDB("中国";2;3)</item> returns " 国" (byte position 2 is not at the beginning of a character in a DBCS string; a space character is returned for byte position 2).</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_id2958497" role="paragraph"><item type="input">=MIDB("中国";3;1)</item> returns " " (byte position 3 is at the beginning of a character in a DBCS string, but 1 byte is only half a DBCS character and a space character is therefore returned instead).</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_id2958507" role="paragraph"><item type="input">=MIDB("中国";3;2)</item> returns "国" (byte position 3 is at the beginning of a character in a DBCS string, and 2 bytes constitute one DBCS character).</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_id2958517" role="paragraph"><item type="input">=MIDB("office";2;3)</item> returns "ffi" (byte position 2 is at the beginning of a character in a non-DBCS string, and 3 bytes of a non-DBCS string constitute 3 characters).</paragraph>
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<bookmark_value>RIGHTB function</bookmark_value>
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<bookmark branch="hid/SC_HID_FUNC_RIGHTB" id="bm_id2954602" localize="false"/>
<h2 id="hd_id2949805"><variable id="rightbvar"><link href="text/scalc/01/04060110.xhp#rightb">RIGHTB</link></variable></h2>
<paragraph id="par_id2945375" role="paragraph"><ahelp hid="HID_FUNC_RIGHTB">Returns the last character or characters of a text with double bytes characters sets (DBCS).</ahelp></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="par_id2954344" role="code">RIGHTB("Text" [; Number_bytes])</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_id2949426" role="paragraph"><emph>Text</emph> is the text of which the right part is to be determined.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_id2953350" role="paragraph"><emph>Number_bytes</emph> (optional) specifies the number of characters you want RIGHTB to extract, based on bytes. If this parameter is not defined, one byte is returned.</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="par_id2951132" role="paragraph"><item type="input">RIGHTB("中国";1)</item> returns " " (1 byte is only half a DBCS character and a space character is returned instead).</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_id2951142" role="paragraph"><item type="input">RIGHTB("中国";2)</item> returns "国" (2 bytes constitute one complete DBCS character).</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_id2951152" role="paragraph"><item type="input">RIGHTB("中国";3)</item> returns " 国" (3 bytes constitute one half DBCS character and one whole DBCS character; a space is returned for the first half).</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_id2951162" role="paragraph"><item type="input">RIGHTB("中国";4)</item> returns "中国" (4 bytes constitute two complete DBCS characters).</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_id2951172" role="paragraph"><item type="input">RIGHTB("office";3)</item> returns "ice" (3 non-DBCS characters each consisting of 1 byte).</paragraph>
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