Read this line as the intent:
The total of B for each name in F has to be arrived at using a formula.

With your list of unique names in F2:F15, as posted

Put in G2:
=SUMPRODUCT(--ISNUMBER(SEARCH(F2,A$2:A$100)),B$2:B$100)
Copy down to G15. This should return the required results for each unique
name.

Replace SEARCH with FIND if you need it to be a stricter, case sensitive
search. FIND is case sensitive, while SEARCH is not.
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Max
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xdemechanik
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"esbee" wrote:
Hi everybody,
I have in column A (say A2:A100), strings containing names and dates
concatinated by "-". I have extracted the names using DataText To Column.
The parsed names have been filtered to have unique names and are kept in
another column say column F ( say F2 :F15).

The names are of variable length (say 4 to 6 characters). As there could
be more than one row containing data relating to the same name but of
different dates, I want to use the unique names in Col F by referencing them
in a formula to extract all data available against them in Col B ( B2:B100).
I want to use sumif or sumproduct. I am not clear how to reference them as
the name lengths are not uniform. As the names are in Col F, I am not able to
use wildcards. Can any one help ?
I give below a sample of data below:

A B F

Dat-Esbee-09-13-2006-S 200 Esbee
Dat-Harry-12-23-2005-S 120 Harry
Dat-Esbee-02-15-2007-S 270 Pete
Dat-Pete-05-13-2006-P 120 TiaN

Dat-TiaN-04-30-2006-S 325

The total of B for each name in F has to be arrived at using a formula.

Thanks in advance.

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esbee