Identify if a cell contains a numerical string
On Jan 15, 12:38*pm, Ron Rosenfeld wrote:
On Tue, 15 Jan 2008 09:31:26 -0800 (PST), Pierre wrote:
Have a long list of identifiers:
E6A3289A
F9DB1200G5W
KRQ7356VQ
G1200GUWY87
In a helper column, we need to identify (true or false is ok) if the
value in the first column contains the string 1200.
Assuming data is in A1:An
=COUNTIF(A1,"*1200*")0
It may appear anywhere in the cell value; it is not consistently found
after or before a given number of other characters within that cell.
--ron
Thanks to both of you. Both work fine.
Pierre
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