VB Replace number with text to another number

Darzl

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Hi All,

New to this forum because I can't find the information I require :)

I have a workbook with several sheets, I have a data sheet and a sheet that collects from the data sheet and give information using COUNTIF functions

The data part is added by a few users and I used to have it in Google sheets where it worked perfectly but because I use * function to search MS excel does not see numbers in the search and count.

So I have been looking at doing an automatic change using VB instead of having to do a find and replace every time data is added.

I have 4 items I wish to change in the same column H:H, If the loaded data is 22HG1 or 220G1 for instance I want it to be changed to 2 then this =COUNTIFS(January_Data!$C:$C,"08/01/2021",January_Data!$H:$H,"2") will work where before is was =COUNTIFS(January_Data!$C:$C,"08/01/2021",January_Data!$H:$H,"2*") and the first one would give a value of 500 and the actual would be 700

I have tried a few VBA scripts I found online but nothing seems to work.

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Thanks in advance

D
 

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Welcome to the Forum!

If I'm interpreting the question correctly, you're asking about converting strings like 22HG1 or 220G1 to 2, so that you can use a COUNTIFS( ___, 2) to count them?

That's not necessary - you can count directly. Are you looking to count everything in H where the first character is 2?
 
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Hi Stephen,

Thank you :)

How can I do the count the way it is at the moment? Yes I was looking to automatically change anything with 2**** to 2 and 4**** to 4 and so on because in the COUNTIF formula 2* or 4* will not count correctly if the character after the 2 or 4 is a number and not a letter.
 
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Perhaps like this:

ABCDEFGH
1
2Match9 Jan 20209 Jan 202022G1
329 Jan 20202xxx
4Result119 Jan 202045G1
59 Jan 202022G1
69 Jan 202022G1
79 Jan 202045G1
89 Jan 20202xxx
99 Jan 20202210
109 Jan 202023yy
119 Jan 202045G1
129 Jan 20202210
139 Jan 20202210
149 Jan 20202210
159 Jan 202022G1
1610 Jan 202122G1
1710 Jan 202122G1
1810 Jan 202122G1
1910 Jan 202145G1
Sheet2
Cell Formulas
RangeFormula
C4C4=SUMPRODUCT((E2:E25=C2)*(LEFT(H2:H25,LEN(C3))=C3&""))
 
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Looks good, I will give it a try, so it looks like I just have to add the 1, 4 in field to aid the search.

Thank you
 
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... so it looks like I just have to add the 1, 4 in field to aid the search.
Correct, just set C3 appropriately.

The formula also adjusts for the length of the search string, e.g. if you wanted to count all 221* or 22G*, rather than just 2*
 
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I managed to get it to work by the looks of it, can I use the same SUMPRODUCT to do a similar search? I have a column in the same sheet that has a Red and column be has the numbers beginning with 4, I am not worried about the date Just the total of 4s that have 22 for instance.

Thanks
 
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Yes, you should be be able to adapt the technique.

Why not give it a try, and post back if you can't make it work.
 
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I did a search on the net and found something with -- and it didn't work because I put * between, changed to -- and it seems to work

=SUMPRODUCT(--(January_Data!E:E=$I$44)--(January_Data!B:B=$D$1&"")) I44 = Red and D1 = 4
 
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I did a search on the net and found something with -- and it didn't work because I put * between, changed to -- and it seems to work

=SUMPRODUCT(--(January_Data!E:E=$I$44)--(January_Data!B:B=$D$1&"")) I44 = Red and D1 = 4
The general form of this type of count is

=SUMPRODUCT(TestA,TestB,TestC ...)

Each test, e.g. January_Data!E:E=$I$44, returns a vector of boolean values TRUE or FALSE. The SUMPRODUCT works on numbers, so we need to coerce these boolean values into 1s and 0s. The usual and most efficient way to do this is to use the unary (double negative) operator --, because --TRUE evaluates as 1, and hence will be counted by the SUMPRODUCT. Other ways you see from time to time include adding 0, or multiplying by 1 (as TRUE+0 = 1, and 1*TRUE=1).

My formula coerced the boolean values by multiplying them (TRUE*TRUE=1).

So you could use:

=SUMPRODUCT(--(January_Data!E:E=$I$44),--(January_Data!B:B=$D$1&""))
or
=SUMPRODUCT((January_Data!E:E=$I$44)*(January_Data!B:B=$D$1&""))

(Although generally it's better to avoid references to whole columns)
 
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