Excel’s FIND() function parses a substring by finding the position of a specific character or string. This function uses the form. FIND(find_text, text, [start_num]) ...

Find the data you need in an Excel sheet more easily with these functions. advertisement. MUO. ... The above formula will return 9, since the substring 12345 starts at that position.

Excel provides predefined regex functions (REGEXTEST, REGEXEXTRACT, REGEXREPLACE) ... It returns a substring (a portion of the string) that matches the regex pattern provided.