checking for a particular string in a cell
 

Hi,

I have a col which contains lot of customer names (Col A). Now I want to
give a formula in col B to check for the few characters in col A and classify.

Ex :

Col A Col B
ABC Stores Stores (I am trying to give formual in Col
B to check the Character
"Stores" in Col A. A1 contains "ABC
Stores", in this cell i
need to check
whether "stores" is
available or not if available
classify as "Stores" in
Col B.)
DEF Mal
GHI complex
JKL Stores Stores

I request anybody to help me with a solution.

-Chr

checking for a particular string in a cell
 

Hi Christopher,

You post's layout makes it very difficult to work out what you're trying to do. However, if you want to find the string 'Stores' in
a cell (eg Cell A1), you could use:
=FIND("Stores",A1)
This will return the position of the first character in the string where 'Stores' appears, or #N/A! if it isn't found.
You can then turn that into a TRUE/FALSE result via:
=NOT(ISERROR(FIND("Stores",A1)))
So, if you just want 'Stores' in ColB:
=IF(NOT(ISERROR(FIND("Stores",A1))),"Stores","")
Alternatively:
=IF(ISERROR(FIND("Stores",A1)),"","Stores")

HTH

Cheers
--
macropod
[MVP - Microsoft Word]
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"Christopher Naveen" wrote in message
...
Hi,

I have a col which contains lot of customer names (Col A). Now I want to
give a formula in col B to check for the few characters in col A and classify.

Ex :

Col A Col B
ABC Stores Stores (I am trying to give formual in Col
B to check the Character
"Stores" in Col A. A1 contains "ABC
Stores", in this cell i
need to check
whether "stores" is
available or not if available
classify as "Stores" in
Col B.)
DEF Mal
GHI complex
JKL Stores Stores

I request anybody to help me with a solution.

-Chr

checking for a particular string in a cell
 

Hi,

Thank u very much. I am extremely sorry while typing the window was small
and i cant able to type it propoerly. You gave me the exact solution for what
i requested. Thanks once again.

I am again facing the problem because FIND will search the strings and i
think it is case sensitive. I want to search for the character "ABC Stores"
in a cell and it may be caps or small it shud return a value.

Pls. tell me the function which is not case sensitive.

Thank u very much

Waiting for ur reply.

chris
"macropod" wrote:

Hi Christopher,

You post's layout makes it very difficult to work out what you're trying to do. However, if you want to find the string 'Stores' in
a cell (eg Cell A1), you could use:
=FIND("Stores",A1)
This will return the position of the first character in the string where 'Stores' appears, or #N/A! if it isn't found.
You can then turn that into a TRUE/FALSE result via:
=NOT(ISERROR(FIND("Stores",A1)))
So, if you just want 'Stores' in ColB:
=IF(NOT(ISERROR(FIND("Stores",A1))),"Stores","")
Alternatively:
=IF(ISERROR(FIND("Stores",A1)),"","Stores")

HTH

Cheers
--
macropod
[MVP - Microsoft Word]
-------------------------

"Christopher Naveen" wrote in message
...
Hi,

I have a col which contains lot of customer names (Col A). Now I want to
give a formula in col B to check for the few characters in col A and classify.

Ex :

Col A Col B
ABC Stores Stores (I am trying to give formual in Col
B to check the Character
"Stores" in Col A. A1 contains "ABC
Stores", in this cell i
need to check
whether "stores" is
available or not if available
classify as "Stores" in
Col B.)
DEF Mal
GHI complex
JKL Stores Stores

I request anybody to help me with a solution.

-Chr

checking for a particular string in a cell
 

Use the function SEARCH instead of FIND.

Hope this helps.

Pete

On Apr 15, 12:49*pm, Christopher Naveen
wrote:
Hi,

Thank u very much. I am extremely sorry while typing the window was small
and i cant able to type it propoerly. You gave me the exact solution for what
i requested. Thanks once again.

I am again facing the problem because FIND will search the strings and i
think it is case sensitive. I want to search for the character "ABC Stores"
in a cell and it may be caps or small it shud return a value.

Pls. tell me the function which is not case sensitive.

Thank u very much

Waiting for ur reply.

chris