iN eXCEL, I HAVE 2 COLUMNS AS SUCH:

A A EXACTMATCH
A B NOMATCH
A1 1 PARTIALMATCH
IS MISS PARTIALMATCH
X NOMATCH

I need to do a wildcard comparison between column A to column B and place in
Column C the resulting match type.

you can create a User Defined Function (aka UDF) for this as follows.

In a standard code module paste this:

Option Explicit
Function MatchType(textA As String, textB As String) As String
If textA = textB Then
MatchType = "EXACTMATCH"
ElseIf InStr(textA, textB) 0 Then
MatchType = "PARTIALMATCH"
ElseIf InStr(textB, textA) 0 Then
MatchType = "PARTIALMATCH"
Else
MatchType = "NOMATCH"
End If
End Function



"dellsilv" wrote in message
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iN eXCEL, I HAVE 2 COLUMNS AS SUCH:

A A EXACTMATCH
A B NOMATCH
A1 1 PARTIALMATCH
IS MISS PARTIALMATCH
X NOMATCH

I need to do a wildcard comparison between column A to column B and place
in
Column C the resulting match type.