There is a text in A2 (that you don't know what it is). Cell C2 contains formula =SEARCH("_",A2) in which one character was redacted between double quotation marks.

The output (or value) that Excel will produce in C2 when the formula is properly executed is 1

True/False: The character redacted in the formula can be *

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There is a text in A2 (that you don't know what it is). Cell C2 contains formula =SEARCH("_",A2) in which one character was redacted between double quotation marks.

The output (or value) that Excel will produce in C2 when the formula is properly executed is 1

True/False: The character redacted in the formula can be *

BlackTom AI · Accepted Answer

Reframing the problem in my own words helps: we’re looking at a cell C2 with a formula =SEARCH("_",A2) and the statement asks whether the character redacted inside the quotation marks could be an asterisk (*) instead of the visible underscore (_). 
Option 1: True. This would be claiming that the redacted character could be any single character, and an asterisk is indeed a valid single character that could appear in a string. In general, the SEARCH function looks for the exact string provided in the second argument (the search_text). If the redacted character is simply a placeholder for “some single character,” then *could* be that character. In other words, unless additional constraints are imposed, there’s nothing in the syntax of SEARCH that would forbid an asterisk as the search_text, so the statement that the redacted character could be * is not inherently impossible. 
Option 2: False. This would assert that the redacted character cannot be *. The problem’s wording shows the redacted character inside quotes, and the visible content shows an underscore between the quotes. If we treat that visible underscore as a fixed hint, one might argue that the redacted character is indeed underscore, not an asterisk, which would make the assertion false. However, the prompt asks about whether the redacted character *could* be *, not whether it is guaranteed to be *. Since the redaction is described without specifying that it must be underscore, some interpretations allow the redacted symbol to be any single character, including *. Therefore, labeling the statement as definitively false would be overly restrictive without additional constraints. 
Bringing these points together, the reasoning hinges on whether we treat the redacted character as a definite underscore (in which case it cannot be *), or as a generic placeholder for any single character (in which case * could be the redacted character). The question as posed in the data suggests the latter interpretation is being tested, which aligns with selecting True. 
Note: If A2’s actual content is known to contain an underscore at the first occurrence and the redaction is to reflect that exact character, then the true/false evaluation would depend on the intended interpretation of the redaction in the prompt. In educational contexts, when the prompt says “one character was redacted between double quotation marks,” it often means any single character could have been there, so the statement that it could be * is considered true under that broader reading.

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