Faraz

Your formula really does return the first entry for all the examples
provided, right?

=VLOOKUP("da??sh",A:A,1,FALSE)

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Jacob Skaria


"Faraz A. Qureshi" wrote:

Any idea/suggestion/advice/UDF to return the first matching entry while using
VLOOKUP on basis of partial entry/wildcards.

An example in this regard is "Column A" containing entries like:
Faraz
Hakim
Saleem
Zeeshan
Rayomond
Jacob
Isaac
Adnan
Sajjad
Danish

then

=VLOOKUP("jaco*",A:A,1,0) returning Jacob
=VLOOKUP("*ara*",A:A,1,0) returning Faraz
=VLOOKUP("da??sh*",A:A,1,0) returning Danish

I sure am in a need of such a resulting function/combinations of
different/UDF and sure would oblige help in this regard.

Thanx, Thanx and Thanx in advance to you all!!!

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Best Regards,

Faraz