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    Summing wildcard matches while subtracting wildcard matches of the previous rows

    Hello and thanks in advance for the help!

    I have a column of cells each consisting of a list of substrings separated by a comma. next to this column is another column with numerical values. Example:

    A | B
    a,b | 3
    a,d | 15
    c,d,b | 2
    a,b,c | 8
    c,a | 6
    d | 9
    b | 11
    a | 4
    a | 2
    c,a,b | 1
    a,d | 7
    b,c | 4
    c,d | 6


    The substrings in col A are ranked:
    1 a
    2 b
    3 c
    4 d

    Now, i need to sum column B for each of the 4 substrings, but making sure not to count the cells where it appeared alongside a higher ranked substring. I already have a formula that counts the instances of each substring when not appearing with a higher ranked substring (column E in example file) using this formula: {=SUM(N(MMULT(1-ISERR(FIND(TRANSPOSE(D$1:D2),A$1:A$13)),2^ROW(D$1:D2))=2^ROWS(D$1:D2)))}. In column F of the example file, I show what the results would look like for what I'm looking for.

    Would appreciate some help on how to solve this.

    Example spreadsheet attached

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    Re: Summing wildcard matches while subtracting wildcard matches of the previous rows

    If you have the filter function how about
    =SUM(FILTER($B$1:$B$13,N(MMULT(1-ISERR(FIND(TRANSPOSE(D$1:D2),A$1:A$13)),2^ROW(D$1:D2))=2^ROWS(D$1:D2))))

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    Re: Summing wildcard matches while subtracting wildcard matches of the previous rows

    That works, thank you very much!

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    Re: Summing wildcard matches while subtracting wildcard matches of the previous rows

    You're welcome & thanks for the feedback.

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