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VLOOKUP and wildcards
Comcaster Wrote: Having an issue with this...any help would be appreciated I am using VLOOKUP to return values from another worksheet and it works as intended 99% of the time BUT... some of the codes that I am trying to find the values for contain an asterisk. I do not have control over the codes or I would have changed the offending codes to not include the asterisk. In this case, I am trying to lookup the values for the following code: G*. I have the arguments within the vlookup function set to FALSE. (which according to Microsoft, should only return values if there is an EXACT match) This is NOT working, as the function returns the first value that begins with G. How do I get VLOOKUP to find G* and G* ONLY. I can handle the N/A errors that result when that value is found. Here is the formula for your reference: =VLOOKUP($A139,Data!$A$3:$N$427,2,FALSE) --- the value in A139 is G*. Going nutz! Thanks In Advance! The partial solution is to use the Tilda (~) in your vlookup. Like so.. VLOOKUP("~"&C2,A2:A4,1,FALSE) This works when there is an asterisk in the search string, but, doesn't seem to work when there is "?" mark in the string?! -- cadcrew ------------------------------------------------------------------------ cadcrew's Profile: http://www.hightechtalks.com/m703 View this thread: http://www.hightechtalks.com/t1409554 |
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VLOOKUP and wildcards
=VLOOKUP(SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(A1,"~"," ~~"),"?","~?"),"*","~*"),
Sheet2!$A:$B,2,FALSE) Is one way to handle both the wild cards and escape character. cadcrew wrote: Comcaster Wrote: Having an issue with this...any help would be appreciated I am using VLOOKUP to return values from another worksheet and it works as intended 99% of the time BUT... some of the codes that I am trying to find the values for contain an asterisk. I do not have control over the codes or I would have changed the offending codes to not include the asterisk. In this case, I am trying to lookup the values for the following code: G*. I have the arguments within the vlookup function set to FALSE. (which according to Microsoft, should only return values if there is an EXACT match) This is NOT working, as the function returns the first value that begins with G. How do I get VLOOKUP to find G* and G* ONLY. I can handle the N/A errors that result when that value is found. Here is the formula for your reference: =VLOOKUP($A139,Data!$A$3:$N$427,2,FALSE) --- the value in A139 is G*. Going nutz! Thanks In Advance! The partial solution is to use the Tilda (~) in your vlookup. Like so.. VLOOKUP("~"&C2,A2:A4,1,FALSE) This works when there is an asterisk in the search string, but, doesn't seem to work when there is "?" mark in the string?! -- cadcrew ------------------------------------------------------------------------ cadcrew's Profile: http://www.hightechtalks.com/m703 View this thread: http://www.hightechtalks.com/t1409554 -- Dave Peterson |
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