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Text search within a string using formula
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. -- esbee |
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