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    Lookup formula for multiple values including specific text positions

    I am currently doing client segmentation for our business but I am having a hard time figuring out a function to do what I require?
    What I have:

    A list of names where each name has multiple item codes attached to it to represent each purchase, all the item codes begin with a Q and are then followed by either a letter or a number, I need a formula to link all the item codes that “start with Q and are then followed by a number” to each respective client, I tried a vlookup(if(left function but that clearly won’t work as It can’t determine if the second value is a number or a letter, and the vlook up will only return the first of the multiple entries for each client. I have over 5000 client names so I can’t do anything manually

    Any help would really be appreciated, thanks!

    Here is how my data looks

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    Last edited by gabrielhuman; 11-18-2015 at 01:52 AM. Reason: Requested

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    Re: Need formula for problem i am having.

    Hi, welcome to the forum

    What would a sample answer look like?

    1 way would be to use a helper column to extract the data you want
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