Hi Leonard,

On Wednesday, 2008-10-01 20:53:46 +0200, Leonard Mada wrote:

> There is NO mention in the Help that comes with OOo-m29 that FIND() does  
> not search for regular expressions, and I was fairly convinced that it  
> actually works.

For SEARCH() it mentions "The search supports regular expressions.", as
it (hopefully) does for all other functions that support regex; for
FIND() it does not as that does not. Might be improved to explicitly
mention non-regex-awareness in this case and cross-reference the
SEARCH() function; please file an issue with the Documentation project.

> The only trouble I have with the new formula is that the already ugly  
> formula got another 4 chars wider (making at 20 formulas another 80  
> chars). I desperately hope that the #VALUE! error gets fixed. ;-)

Don't despair.. this will probably not be changed. For interop with
other applications also ODFF defines to return an error if the string
was not found. In Calc it is planned to support the IFERROR() function
though that will ease handling of such cases and also improve runtime
performance of expressions such as
IF(ISERROR(something);errorcase;something)

  Eike

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