Spreadsheet::Engine::Function::FIND - Spreadsheet funtion FIND()

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Spreadsheet::Engine::Function::FIND - Spreadsheet funtion FIND()

SYNOPSIS

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  =FIND(want, string, [offset])

DESCRIPTION

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Find a substring at optional offset.

HISTORY

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This is a Modified Version of code extracted from SocialCalc::Functions in SocialCalc 1.1.0

COPYRIGHT

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Portions (c) Copyright 2005, 2006, 2007 Software Garden, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Portions (c) Copyright 2007 Socialtext, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Portions (c) Copyright 2008 Tony Bowden

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The contents of this file are subject to the Artistic License 2.0; you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at http://www.perlfoundation.org/artistic_license_2_0

Spreadsheet-Engine documentation Contained in the Spreadsheet-Engine distribution. 
package Spreadsheet::Engine::Function::FIND;

use strict;
use warnings;

use base 'Spreadsheet::Engine::Fn::text';

sub argument_count { -2 => 3 }

sub signature { 't', 't', 'n' }

sub calculate {
  my ($self, $want, $string, $offset) = @_;

  # TODO allow signature to define defaults & custom error messages
  $offset = 1 unless defined $offset;
  die Spreadsheet::Engine::Error->val('Start is before string')
    if $offset < 1;

  my $result = index $string, $want, $offset - 1;
  die Spreadsheet::Engine::Error->val('Not found') unless $result >= 0;
  return $result + 1;
}

sub result_type { 'n' }

1;

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