problems with find command

[Martin Meili]

I'm having problems with the find command.
I've got a a text field with a lot of names. Each name is on a single 
line and the data is clean, so, no spaces, no tabs and so on……
Using the find command the result is "not found" (!!), even though you 
can see in the text field that the result should be "empty" (the name 
is marked as found !!).

Has anybody had the same problems and how can I fix it? Might it be a 
bug?

Cheers
Martin