How to convert list separator in formula with strings according to locale

[4sp1r3]

I have a workbook with several formulas like the following one:

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My problem is that when opening the excel file from a system using a different locale - and more specifically different list separators (";" instead of ",") the commas inside

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are not converted, since they are considered as strings. All the other commas, however, are converted, so the formula results in #REF! error.

How could I get excel to treat those "," as list separators, and thus convert them too to ";"? Is there some sort of generic reference to list separator, which I could use instead of the comma inside those strings?

[rorya]

Why do you want to include the header row as a matter of interest? Doesn't usually make sense in a MATCH formula.

[4sp1r3]

Why do you want to include the header row as a matter of interest? Doesn't usually make sense in a MATCH formula.

B34 contains the name of a table on another sheet (="getDataM"). So with

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I am referring to the LOOKUP column of that table, which contains a code I want to match. There are many tables on the same sheet with a column named LOOKUP, and there is the risk that a code might not be unique outside of each table, hence I wrote the formula this way. Would there be a better way to do this?

[JeteMc]

I don't have a way to test this, however you might try:

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