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Match, Exact? NA error
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hi, trying to make an "exact" match for the case, of a character, e.g.: "A" where the following works, am trying to isolate capital "A"'s. =MATCH("A",$AE$1:$AE$1299,0) the following receives a NA error. Is there a correct way to represent? am open to inserting IF statements, EXACT, or ROW<=().. etc. =MATCH(EXACT($AE$1:$AE$1299,"A"),$AE$1:$AE$1299,0) example of an EXACT, that was able to get to work in combo with other: =SUMPRODUCT(--(EXACT(LEFT($AE$112:$AE$1300,1),"A"))) |
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What kind of data do you have in your range?
Do the cells just contain the single letter "A" or do they contain strings like "Address" or "adult" ? So, if you're using MATCH then you just want the relative position of "A" within the array AE1:AE1299 ? Your posts always confuse me! Biff "nastech" wrote in message ... 060724 Match, Exact? NA error hi, trying to make an "exact" match for the case, of a character, e.g.: "A" where the following works, am trying to isolate capital "A"'s. =MATCH("A",$AE$1:$AE$1299,0) the following receives a NA error. Is there a correct way to represent? am open to inserting IF statements, EXACT, or ROW<=().. etc. =MATCH(EXACT($AE$1:$AE$1299,"A"),$AE$1:$AE$1299,0) example of an EXACT, that was able to get to work in combo with other: =SUMPRODUCT(--(EXACT(LEFT($AE$112:$AE$1300,1),"A"))) |
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hi, yes to all.. just the letters: A, a, B, b, C, c, D, d
just relative position: yes if getting the row number, is what that means. problems that arise, I believe are from actually doing work but some functions only do half the job. e.g.: would think programming would have allowed easy exclusion of top rows where having absolute cell references that control that column have: A, a, B.. as part of the settings; but then, the formula will not work. I would have allowed programming to use: EXACT, ROW<(), then "" nothing... - either that or it's just some trick I haven't quite worked out. - or uniqueness of problems, haven't been thought of by others, ... thanks "Biff" wrote: What kind of data do you have in your range? Do the cells just contain the single letter "A" or do they contain strings like "Address" or "adult" ? So, if you're using MATCH then you just want the relative position of "A" within the array AE1:AE1299 ? Your posts always confuse me! Biff "nastech" wrote in message ... 060724 Match, Exact? NA error hi, trying to make an "exact" match for the case, of a character, e.g.: "A" where the following works, am trying to isolate capital "A"'s. =MATCH("A",$AE$1:$AE$1299,0) the following receives a NA error. Is there a correct way to represent? am open to inserting IF statements, EXACT, or ROW<=().. etc. =MATCH(EXACT($AE$1:$AE$1299,"A"),$AE$1:$AE$1299,0) example of an EXACT, that was able to get to work in combo with other: =SUMPRODUCT(--(EXACT(LEFT($AE$112:$AE$1300,1),"A"))) |
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OK.....
If there's only one instance of "A": =SUMPRODUCT(--(EXACT(AE1:AE1299,"A")),ROW(AE1:AE1299)) If there might be more than one instance of "A": This will find the first instance: Entered as an array using the key combination of CTRL,SHIFT,ENTER: =INDEX(ROW(AE1:AE1299),MATCH(TRUE,EXACT(AE1:AE1299 ,"A"),0)) Biff "nastech" wrote in message ... hi, yes to all.. just the letters: A, a, B, b, C, c, D, d just relative position: yes if getting the row number, is what that means. problems that arise, I believe are from actually doing work but some functions only do half the job. e.g.: would think programming would have allowed easy exclusion of top rows where having absolute cell references that control that column have: A, a, B.. as part of the settings; but then, the formula will not work. I would have allowed programming to use: EXACT, ROW<(), then "" nothing... - either that or it's just some trick I haven't quite worked out. - or uniqueness of problems, haven't been thought of by others, ... thanks "Biff" wrote: What kind of data do you have in your range? Do the cells just contain the single letter "A" or do they contain strings like "Address" or "adult" ? So, if you're using MATCH then you just want the relative position of "A" within the array AE1:AE1299 ? Your posts always confuse me! Biff "nastech" wrote in message ... 060724 Match, Exact? NA error hi, trying to make an "exact" match for the case, of a character, e.g.: "A" where the following works, am trying to isolate capital "A"'s. =MATCH("A",$AE$1:$AE$1299,0) the following receives a NA error. Is there a correct way to represent? am open to inserting IF statements, EXACT, or ROW<=().. etc. =MATCH(EXACT($AE$1:$AE$1299,"A"),$AE$1:$AE$1299,0) example of an EXACT, that was able to get to work in combo with other: =SUMPRODUCT(--(EXACT(LEFT($AE$112:$AE$1300,1),"A"))) |
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Hi, thanks.. sorry, many instances of each letter, so the 2nd example worked;
but wondering if way to exclude top rows, in case have cells with same letter "A" as settings? trying to insert ROW5... "Biff" wrote: OK..... If there's only one instance of "A": =SUMPRODUCT(--(EXACT(AE1:AE1299,"A")),ROW(AE1:AE1299)) If there might be more than one instance of "A": This will find the first instance: Entered as an array using the key combination of CTRL,SHIFT,ENTER: =INDEX(ROW(AE1:AE1299),MATCH(TRUE,EXACT(AE1:AE1299 ,"A"),0)) Biff "nastech" wrote in message ... hi, yes to all.. just the letters: A, a, B, b, C, c, D, d just relative position: yes if getting the row number, is what that means. problems that arise, I believe are from actually doing work but some functions only do half the job. e.g.: would think programming would have allowed easy exclusion of top rows where having absolute cell references that control that column have: A, a, B.. as part of the settings; but then, the formula will not work. I would have allowed programming to use: EXACT, ROW<(), then "" nothing... - either that or it's just some trick I haven't quite worked out. - or uniqueness of problems, haven't been thought of by others, ... thanks "Biff" wrote: What kind of data do you have in your range? Do the cells just contain the single letter "A" or do they contain strings like "Address" or "adult" ? So, if you're using MATCH then you just want the relative position of "A" within the array AE1:AE1299 ? Your posts always confuse me! Biff "nastech" wrote in message ... 060724 Match, Exact? NA error hi, trying to make an "exact" match for the case, of a character, e.g.: "A" where the following works, am trying to isolate capital "A"'s. =MATCH("A",$AE$1:$AE$1299,0) the following receives a NA error. Is there a correct way to represent? am open to inserting IF statements, EXACT, or ROW<=().. etc. =MATCH(EXACT($AE$1:$AE$1299,"A"),$AE$1:$AE$1299,0) example of an EXACT, that was able to get to work in combo with other: =SUMPRODUCT(--(EXACT(LEFT($AE$112:$AE$1300,1),"A"))) |
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Just change the range to start at AE6:
For the RELATIVE row location: =INDEX(ROW(AE6:AE1299)-ROW(AE6)+1),MATCH(TRUE,EXACT(AE6:AE1299,"A"),0)) For the ACTUAL row location: =INDEX(ROW(AE6:AE1299),MATCH(TRUE,EXACT(AE6:AE1299 ,"A"),0)) Biff "nastech" wrote in message ... Hi, thanks.. sorry, many instances of each letter, so the 2nd example worked; but wondering if way to exclude top rows, in case have cells with same letter "A" as settings? trying to insert ROW5... "Biff" wrote: OK..... If there's only one instance of "A": =SUMPRODUCT(--(EXACT(AE1:AE1299,"A")),ROW(AE1:AE1299)) If there might be more than one instance of "A": This will find the first instance: Entered as an array using the key combination of CTRL,SHIFT,ENTER: =INDEX(ROW(AE1:AE1299),MATCH(TRUE,EXACT(AE1:AE1299 ,"A"),0)) Biff "nastech" wrote in message ... hi, yes to all.. just the letters: A, a, B, b, C, c, D, d just relative position: yes if getting the row number, is what that means. problems that arise, I believe are from actually doing work but some functions only do half the job. e.g.: would think programming would have allowed easy exclusion of top rows where having absolute cell references that control that column have: A, a, B.. as part of the settings; but then, the formula will not work. I would have allowed programming to use: EXACT, ROW<(), then "" nothing... - either that or it's just some trick I haven't quite worked out. - or uniqueness of problems, haven't been thought of by others, ... thanks "Biff" wrote: What kind of data do you have in your range? Do the cells just contain the single letter "A" or do they contain strings like "Address" or "adult" ? So, if you're using MATCH then you just want the relative position of "A" within the array AE1:AE1299 ? Your posts always confuse me! Biff "nastech" wrote in message ... 060724 Match, Exact? NA error hi, trying to make an "exact" match for the case, of a character, e.g.: "A" where the following works, am trying to isolate capital "A"'s. =MATCH("A",$AE$1:$AE$1299,0) the following receives a NA error. Is there a correct way to represent? am open to inserting IF statements, EXACT, or ROW<=().. etc. =MATCH(EXACT($AE$1:$AE$1299,"A"),$AE$1:$AE$1299,0) example of an EXACT, that was able to get to work in combo with other: =SUMPRODUCT(--(EXACT(LEFT($AE$112:$AE$1300,1),"A"))) |
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