Hi,

I have a column where the cell contains vaiable information, and I want to
find any cell which contains LHR and SEA and LHR again, the format of the
text will be variable in length and separators and will not always contain
these 3 codes, a couple of examples of what the string will look like are
below:

AMS/DXB-AMS/LHR-SEA-LHR/AMS
DUB-/AMS/LHR-SEA-LHR-AMS-DUB

any ideas of formulas that will find a cell which contains sea and lhr
within it?

Rgds Paula

Paula,

Try this. Drag down as required.

=IF(SEARCH("LHR-SEA-LHR",A1),"It's Here", "Not Here")

Mike

"Paula" wrote:

Hi,

I have a column where the cell contains vaiable information, and I want to
find any cell which contains LHR and SEA and LHR again, the format of the
text will be variable in length and separators and will not always contain
these 3 codes, a couple of examples of what the string will look like are
below:

AMS/DXB-AMS/LHR-SEA-LHR/AMS
DUB-/AMS/LHR-SEA-LHR-AMS-DUB

any ideas of formulas that will find a cell which contains sea and lhr
within it?

Rgds Paula

Thanks Mike, I'll try it, thanks for coming to the rescue again... don't know
what I would do without this group, but I do know my formulas are getting a
bit better as I learn. Thanks and have a nice weekend.

"Mike H" wrote:

Paula,

Try this. Drag down as required.

=IF(SEARCH("LHR-SEA-LHR",A1),"It's Here", "Not Here")

Mike

"Paula" wrote:

Hi,

I have a column where the cell contains vaiable information, and I want to
find any cell which contains LHR and SEA and LHR again, the format of the
text will be variable in length and separators and will not always contain
these 3 codes, a couple of examples of what the string will look like are
below:

AMS/DXB-AMS/LHR-SEA-LHR/AMS
DUB-/AMS/LHR-SEA-LHR-AMS-DUB

any ideas of formulas that will find a cell which contains sea and lhr
within it?

Rgds Paula

hi, I have found the following works good for being abe to modify from one
location.
it would used defined names (e.g.: Ab, by: Insert, Name, Define): enter:
={3;6;9;"c";"C"} or ={"LHR-SEA-LHR";"DXB-AMS"} name it anything/ Ab

for:
=IF(SUMPRODUCT(--ISNUMBER(FIND(Ab,F9)))0,"yes","no")

"Paula" wrote:

Hi,

I have a column where the cell contains vaiable information, and I want to
find any cell which contains LHR and SEA and LHR again, the format of the
text will be variable in length and separators and will not always contain
these 3 codes, a couple of examples of what the string will look like are
below:

AMS/DXB-AMS/LHR-SEA-LHR/AMS
DUB-/AMS/LHR-SEA-LHR-AMS-DUB

any ideas of formulas that will find a cell which contains sea and lhr
within it?

Rgds Paula