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      <title id="tit">SEARCH Function</title>
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      <paragraph id="par_id3148692" role="paragraph"><ahelp hid="HID_FUNC_SUCHEN">Returns the position of a text segment within a character string.</ahelp> You can set the start of the search as an option. The search text can be a number or any sequence of characters. The search is not case-sensitive. If the text is not found, returns error 519 (#VALUE).</paragraph>
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    <paragraph id="par_id3154671" role="code">SEARCH("FindText"; "Text" [; Position])</paragraph>
    <paragraph id="par_id3146080" role="paragraph"> <emph>FindText</emph> is the text to be searched for.</paragraph>
    <paragraph id="par_id3154111" role="paragraph"> <emph>Text</emph> is the text where the search will take place.</paragraph>
    <paragraph id="par_id3149559" role="paragraph"> <emph>Position</emph> (optional) is the position in the text where the search is to start.</paragraph>
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    <paragraph id="par_id3154564" role="paragraph"> <item type="input">=SEARCH(54;998877665544)</item> returns 10.</paragraph>
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