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[Anonymous]

Hi,

What does this dax do please?

SEARCH("SP*",[fieldname],1,0) > 0

Thanks

[tex628]

It searches the field "Fieldname" for the textstring "SP*" and if it finds it, it returns the index otherwise a 0. 

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dax/search-function-dax

[Anonymous]

Hi,

I investigated further, it looks to find any text that begins with SP, rather than SP*

i.e. it returns sp1, sphello

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, etc.
But how can I check for string that begins with SP* and do not want to use * as wild card

Thank you

[v-lili6-msft · Accepted solution]

hi, @Anonymous  

As the document said, 

Term	Definition
find_text	The text that you want to find. You can use wildcard characters — the question mark (?) and asterisk (*) — in find_text. A question mark matches any single character; an asterisk matches any sequence of characters. If you want to find an actual question mark or asterisk, type a tilde (~) before the character.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dax/search-function-dax

This formul  SEARCH("SP*",[fieldname],1,0) > 0 equals SEARCH("SP",[fieldname],1,0) > 0

It returns that if there is "SP" in the field, it will return ture.

Best Regards,

Lin

[tex628]

Appear to be correct yes, I can't actually tell if theres any difference between SEARCH("SP" .... ) and SEARCH("SP*" .... ).
But i does work indeed!