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Finding a particular substring in the middle of a string

Hi

For a workflow, in the formula, I have the following:


 REGEXP_SUBSTR({title},'[S][0-9]+') 

This works when the particular string pattern is at the start of the {title} field.


However, it does not work if that string pattern is in the middle of a text string.


For example:

FW: Invoice 124678,S123548

If this string combination is in the middle of another field, such as {incomingmessage}, this works to extract the text even when it is surrounded by blank spaces, other strings, punctuation,etc


Why would there be a difference in how the expression works if it is in the {title} field vs {incomingmessage} field?

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