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Search text in a cell
If I have a sentence in a cell, what code can I use to search a word in that
cell? Eg: A1: "I am happy" I want to test if A1 has the word "happy" in it. |
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Search text in a cell
One way:
=ISNUMBER(SEARCH("happy",A1)) Will return either TRUE (yes it does) or FALSE (no it doesn't) Biff "J@Y" wrote in message ... If I have a sentence in a cell, what code can I use to search a word in that cell? Eg: A1: "I am happy" I want to test if A1 has the word "happy" in it. |
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Search text in a cell
I used VLOOKUP to search for a keyword and it works great.
On Jun 14, 1:28 pm, "T. Valko" wrote: One way: =ISNUMBER(SEARCH("happy",A1)) Will return either TRUE (yes it does) or FALSE (no it doesn't) Biff "J@Y" wrote in message ... If I have a sentence in a cell, what code can I use to search a word in that cell? Eg: A1: "I am happy" I want to test if A1 has the word "happy" in it. |
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Another way...........
=MID(A1,FIND("happy",A1,1),5) Vaya con Dios, Chuck, CABGx3 "J@Y" wrote: If I have a sentence in a cell, what code can I use to search a word in that cell? Eg: A1: "I am happy" I want to test if A1 has the word "happy" in it. |
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Search text in a cell
Another one:
=if(countif(a1,"*happy*")0,"yep","nope") J@Y wrote: If I have a sentence in a cell, what code can I use to search a word in that cell? Eg: A1: "I am happy" I want to test if A1 has the word "happy" in it. -- Dave Peterson |
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