nc,

When I tested it, it returned the starting position of the last instance of
the string I was searching for. Perhaps you could post the values that you
are passing to the function(s)?

HTH,
Bernie
MS Excel MVP


"nc" wrote in message
...
Hi Bernie

I tried your code, it seem to be doing the search from left to right.


"Bernie Deitrick" wrote:

nc,

You can use a user-defined-function. Copy the code below, and paste it
into
a module in your workbook. Then use it like:

=RSEARCH(find_text,within_text)
=RSEARCH("Bernie","Bernie, you are Bernie")
=RSEARCH(A2, A1)

And, if you don't like UDF's then you can use the array function
(entered
with Ctrl-Shift-Enter)


=MAX(IF(ISERROR(SEARCH(A2,A1,ROW(INDIRECT("A1:A"&L EN(A1))))),0,SEARCH(A2,A1,
ROW(INDIRECT("A1:A"&LEN(A1))))))

where A1 is the string to be searched, and A2 is the string to be found,
for
both of the above cases.

HTH,
Bernie
MS Excel MVP


Public Function RSearch(strFindText As String, _
strWithinText As String) As Integer
Dim i As Integer

For i = Len(strWithinText) To 1 Step -1
If InStr(i, strWithinText, strFindText) 0 Then
RSearch = i
Exit Function
End If
Next i

End Function


"nc" wrote in message
...
Hi

The following function reads from left to right
SEARCH(find_text,within_text,start_num)

Can anyone please help I need the same function but reading from right
to
left.

Thanks.