fuzzy lookup

gideon · Apr 16th, 2002, 07:43 PM

Hi everyone,

Has anyone created a lookup formula that looks for the closest match of a string?

Thanks in advance...

brettvba · Apr 16th, 2002, 07:49 PM

just put true at the end instead of false.

gideon · Apr 16th, 2002, 08:33 PM

That will give me the next one alphabetically, true, but what about searching a dilimited string.....e.g.

look for the next Admin Support, i.e. return record 3 instead of record 2...if 1 is not an exact match

1 Accounts Payable.Admin Support
2 Accounts Payable.Manager
3 Accounts Receivable.Admin Support

many thanks

Yogi Anand · Apr 16th, 2002, 08:42 PM

Lookup is intended for selecting the first match ... and then it quits.

You could look for
"Receivable.Admin Support"

this is different from
"Payable.Admin Support"

HTH

gideon · Apr 16th, 2002, 08:46 PM

Thanks.......I suspected lookup may be a bit limited...Can you suggest any other functions that may look at parts of a string and return it....

I know about FIND and MID....

Cheers

Yogi Anand · Apr 16th, 2002, 09:08 PM

Quote:

On 2002-04-16 19:46, gideon wrote:
Thanks.......I suspected lookup may be a bit limited...Can you suggest any other functions that may look at parts of a string and return it....

I know about FIND and MID....

Cheers

If you like Find and Mid, then we can use them. After you have looked up for

"Receivable.Admin Support" and if it is located in cell A2, then put in B2

=RIGHT(A2,LEN(A2)-FIND(".",A2,1)) to get
"Admin Support"

HTH

Apr 16th, 2002, 08:42 PM	#4
Yogi Anand MrExcel MVP Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Michigan USA Posts: 11,452	Lookup is intended for selecting the first match ... and then it quits. You could look for "Receivable.Admin Support" this is different from "Payable.Admin Support" HTH __________________ Regards! Yogi Anand, D.Eng, P.E. Energy Efficient Building Network LLC www.energyefficientbuild.com

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Apr 16th, 2002, 07:43 PM	#1
gideon Board Regular Join Date: Mar 2002 Posts: 78	Hi everyone, Has anyone created a lookup formula that looks for the closest match of a string? Thanks in advance...

Apr 16th, 2002, 07:49 PM	#2
brettvba MrExcel MVP Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Christchurch New Zealand Posts: 1,030	just put true at the end instead of false.

Apr 16th, 2002, 08:33 PM	#3
gideon Board Regular Join Date: Mar 2002 Posts: 78	That will give me the next one alphabetically, true, but what about searching a dilimited string.....e.g. look for the next Admin Support, i.e. return record 3 instead of record 2...if 1 is not an exact match 1 Accounts Payable.Admin Support 2 Accounts Payable.Manager 3 Accounts Receivable.Admin Support many thanks

Apr 16th, 2002, 08:46 PM	#5
gideon Board Regular Join Date: Mar 2002 Posts: 78	Thanks.......I suspected lookup may be a bit limited...Can you suggest any other functions that may look at parts of a string and return it.... I know about FIND and MID.... Cheers