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MikeGerrity2
Qrew Member
10 years ago

Is there a formula that will tell tell you the position of a specficic character in a text string

I'm looking for the equivalent of the "Find" function in excel.   find("x","I am x years old") would equal return 6.  Since x is the 6th character in the string.   I don't think this formula exis...
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QuickBaseCoachD
Qrew Captain
10 years ago
Try this. I will use formula variables to break the formula into smaller pieces.

var text Temp = Left([my text field],"x");

Length($Temp) +1
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QuickBaseCoachD
Qrew Captain
8 years ago
did you try this

var text Temp = Left([my text field],"#%");
var number StartPosition = Length($Temp) +1;

Mid([field], $StartPosition, 5)