Error in FIND/SEARCH function

[ViorelCa]

Dear Colleagues,

I have a column that stores emails, called [leadsemail].

And a Helper column, called [helper1], that extract the emails from the [leadsemail] column based on a condition:

helper1 = if(ISBLANK(TableLeads[opportunityID]),TableLeads[leadsemail])

The FIND function works only if I refer to the [leadsemail] column.

helper3 = FIND("@",TableLeads[leadsemail])

If I refer to the helper1 column, I get an error (although the content of both columns is the same, both text).

helper3 = FIND("@",TableLeads[helper1])

The error is "The search Text provided to function 'FIND' could not be found in the given text."

Thanks a lot!

Viorel 

Bucharest

[Datatouille · Accepted solution]

Hi @ViorelCa

You might have some elements in your helper1 column which do not have any "@" at all.

In that case, Find() function returns an error and is not able to compute the correct calculation for any rows of your helper1 column - even those which actually include the symbol "@".

If you add an IfError statement, you will get rid of this error:

=IfError( Find ("@" , TableLeads[helper1] ) , 0 )

[ViorelCa]

Dear Tristan @Datatouille,

Your solution worked!

Many thanks for the help!

Kind regards,
Viorel