Bug 100471 - Help for Calc is missing information on result if function fails (FIND, SEARCH)
Summary: Help for Calc is missing information on result if function fails (FIND, SEARCH)
Status: RESOLVED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Documentation (show other bugs)
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(earliest affected)
unspecified
Hardware: All All
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Reported: 2016-06-18 19:20 UTC by Axel Kaske
Modified: 2023-05-11 15:37 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Description Axel Kaske 2016-06-18 19:20:58 UTC
the online docu for Calc (at least the German docu) shows only which result is returned by a function if the function is successfull
e.g.
SEARCH("Text"; "Search Text")
returns 8

but what is return if SEARCH fails
e.g.
SEARCH("MyText"; "Search Text")

Further the online docu for Calc does not show information for SUCHEN.
Comment 1 steve 2016-06-23 05:52:11 UTC
not os x specific, setting to "all"
Comment 2 Aron Budea 2016-10-10 20:11:38 UTC
Confirmed in English help that FIND and SEARCH don't specify what is returned if the given parameter isn't found.

Axel, is there any other function where such information is missing?
I found the help page for SUCHEN, what kind of documentation were you looking for?
Comment 3 QA Administrators 2017-05-02 11:37:31 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 4 QA Administrators 2017-05-31 10:47:04 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 5 Aron Budea 2021-02-22 21:47:11 UTC
Let's resurrect this documentation issue, as it has never been fixed.
The report is about FIND/SEARCH, but other functions could be affected as well.

https://help.libreoffice.org/Calc/Text_Functions#FIND
https://help.libreoffice.org/Calc/Text_Functions#SEARCH
Comment 6 Roman Kuznetsov 2023-05-11 12:46:16 UTC
Olivier, could you please check is this problem in our Help?
Comment 7 Olivier Hallot 2023-05-11 15:19:50 UTC
SEARCH
https://help.libreoffice.org/master/en-US/text/scalc/01/04060110.html?DbPAR=CALC#bm_id3151005

FIND
https://help.libreoffice.org/master/en-US/text/scalc/01/04060110.html?DbPAR=CALC#bm_id3152589

Note: in the Calc function help pages, we don't describe the situation of bad inputs or bad data. In the case of comment#0 example (SEARCH("MyText"; "Search Text")), Calc returns #VALUE (no value).

=> NOTABUG
Comment 8 Roman Kuznetsov 2023-05-11 15:37:01 UTC
Thank you, Olivier. Clised as NB