Search a text string for multiple terms and choose 1

[dcxkraze]

Any tips on the following:

Column A is a long list of paragraph long text strings. In Column B I want to search the strings in column A for 1 of the 10 following terms. If more than 1 were to show up at a time, I would need to pull the first.

Sample Column A Cell:

"...contract was up for bid in Los Angeles for two multi-stage..."

List of 10 terms to search for in Column B

1) Los Angeles
2) New York
3) Chicago
4) San Francisco
5) San Diego
6) Orange County
7) Dallas
8) Atlanta
9) Boston
10) Washington DC

Is this feasible or extremely difficult?

 

[Domenic]

Assuming that D1:D10 contain your list of 10 terms for which to search,

B1, copied down:

=INDEX($D$1:$D$10,MATCH(TRUE,ISNUMBER(SEARCH($D$1:$D$10,A1)),0))

...confirmed with CONTROL+SHIFT+ENTER, not just ENTER.

Hope this helps!

 

[dcxkraze]

Wow,

That's great, works perfectly. Need to reverse engineer that and understand how you did it.

Thanks a bunch.

Brandon