FIND - Returning the Position of a Specified Character in Text- FineBI Document

Last update：August 28, 2023

Overview

Grammar	FIND(find_text,within_text,start_num)	Returns the first specified substring (find_text) in the character string (within_text) starting from the index position (start_num). Note: For real-time data, a defaulted value needs to be added if there are fewer than 3 parameters in the function.
Parameter 1	find_text	A substring to be found
Parameter 2	within_text	A string containing the substring to be found (find_text) The search starts from the first character of within_text. If start_num is not specified, the default value 1 is used.
Parameter 3	start_num	Index position where the search starts. Note: Negative values are not supported in real-time data.

Note:

The function returns 0 if no find_text is found.

Notes

The first and second parameters of the FIND function are of any type and the third is a number that can be defaulted.

Example

Take fuzzy search as an example, which is similar to the LIKE operator in SQL.

Add a formula column to label values containing Women, Men, and other characters in Category description in the built-in Store sales statistics dataset as "Women Products", Men Products", and "Others", respectively.

Enter the formula IF(FIND("Women",Category description)!=0,"Women Products",IF(FIND("Men",Category description)!=0,"Men Products","Others")), as shown in the following figure.

Note:

Only values of Category description fields displayed with a blue background are valid.

The following table explains each part of the formula above.

Formula	Explanation
FIND("Women",Category description) != 0	Returns TRUE if the Category description field contains "Women", otherwise, returns FALSE.
IF(FIND("Women",Category description)!=0,"Women Products",IF(FIND("Men",Category description)!=0,"Men Products","Others"))	Labels Category description fields containing Women as "Women Products", Men as "Men Products", or otherwise, as "Others".

The following table describes more examples.

Formula	Result	Notes
FIND("I","Information")	Single Login Setting	Returns the index position of "I" in "Information", that is, 1.
FIND("o","Information",2)	Login Authentication Setting
FIND("o","Information",-1)	Null	Negative values of start_num are not supported in real-time data.
FIND("t","Information",1)	8

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FIND - Returning the Position of a Specified Character in Text

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