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Multi-select fields containing a value with a " (double quote) in it yield unexpected results with formulas—essentially because Airtable seems to escape double quotes in arrays with another double quote rather than a backslash or something else.


Here’s a series of formula results on a multi-select field named {multi} containing a single option with the value: 6" Bar Pull


Formula: {multi}

Result: “6"” Bar Pull"


Formula: FIND('6" Bar Pull",{multi})

Result: 0


Formula: FIND(‘6" Bar Pull’, REPLACE(multi, FIND(’""’, multi), 2, ‘"’))

Result: 2


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