vlookup retunrning a match, when not a match...
Excel can use wildcards:
* for any characters ? for any single character ~ as an "escape" character to indicate that the next * or ? should be treated as an asterisk or question mark--not as wild cards. So if you're using an =vlookup() for instance, you can avoid wildcard problems with a formula like: =VLOOKUP(SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(A1,"~"," ~~"),"?","~?"),"*","~*"), Sheet2!$A:$B,2,FALSE) mark wrote: I have two item numbers: 61*80*C51*022 in a list of item numbers, tblList 61*080*C51*022 in a single cell, call it a1 the function =vlookup(a1,tblList,1,0) is returning a match on that. they are not identical... one is *80* , the other is *080* . I think it's because of a wildcard search that it's calling it a match? I need it to be able to distinguish the difference. It's causing my report to be wrong. Help? thanks. -- Dave Peterson |
vlookup retunrning a match, when not a match...
Thanks, that's one step expanded (for the ~) from what I came up with
earlier, and posted above. I'll implement it tomorrow, probably. "Dave Peterson" wrote: Excel can use wildcards: * for any characters ? for any single character ~ as an "escape" character to indicate that the next * or ? should be treated as an asterisk or question mark--not as wild cards. So if you're using an =vlookup() for instance, you can avoid wildcard problems with a formula like: =VLOOKUP(SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(A1,"~"," ~~"),"?","~?"),"*","~*"), Sheet2!$A:$B,2,FALSE) mark wrote: I have two item numbers: 61*80*C51*022 in a list of item numbers, tblList 61*080*C51*022 in a single cell, call it a1 the function =vlookup(a1,tblList,1,0) is returning a match on that. they are not identical... one is *80* , the other is *080* . I think it's because of a wildcard search that it's calling it a match? I need it to be able to distinguish the difference. It's causing my report to be wrong. Help? thanks. -- Dave Peterson |
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