Confirm matching text in cell and then return a numerical value from a table

[lrntolive]

Hello all and thank you for your help.

I've run into an issue in Excel, and I cannot seem to get any formulas to work. This may be beyond the capabilities of Excel, but here goes.

I need to perform the following functions and return a single value:
1) Search a text string in a single cell to confirm certain text is contained in the string
2) If said text is found, return a numerical value from a table with matching text string

Here is the example text string (all contained in one cell):

CAT18-EC-FW-FGP, LW, SDE, NOF, FG, RHS, PLBR

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I would like to confirm whether the text string has an "FW" or "SW" within the text string. The text string will not always be in the same spot.

String	Value
FW	0
SW	1

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Also, I will need to be able to search other text strings with other values, but I thought this would be enough to get started.

Excel Version 14.0 32-bit version

Thank you

 

[Fazza]

what about
=SUMIF(CellWithString,"*"&LookupString1&"*",ReturnValue1)+SUMIF(CellWithString,"*"&LookupString2&"*",ReturnValue2)

 

[lrntolive]

I can't seem to figure out if I'm doing something wrong, but the formula returns the same value whether or not I change the text string.

For example: I changed the "FW" in "CAT18-EC-FW-FGP, LW, SDE, NOF, FG, RHS, PLBR" to "SW", but the formula still output a "0". "SW" should return a value of "1".

Here is what I did: =SUMIF(B3,"*FW*",A1:B2)+SUMIF(B3,"*SW*",A1:B2)

I used the same information as above to test.

I tried this, and it worked, but I'd rather have a function that is not hard coded with the values in it to prevent errors:

=SUMPRODUCT(--ISNUMBER(SEARCH({"*FW*";"*SW*"},B3)),A1:B2) Any ideas? thank you.

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[lrntolive]

After further testing using the SUMPRODUCT function, I found it has a problem with strings that are similar and ends up adding values together.

Example: "HW" and "EHW"

This solution didn't work out like I hoped. Any other ideas?

Thank you

 

[Fazza]

sorry that the formula offered wasn't clear: i didn't know what cells to reference

instead of the used version =SUMIF(B3,"*FW*",A1:B2)+SUMIF(B3,"*SW*",A1:B2)

try the intended =SUMIF(B3,"*"&A1&"*",B1)+SUMIF(B3,"*"&A2&"*",B2)

if the requirement is slightly different now, it needs to be explicitly described.
Please clearly explained it with sample data (input & corresponding output) that can be copied to Excel