So i have strings of concatenated text. I get one value from a worksheet and have it in column A, then I need to look it up and return a value from column B. But when I do the index match it still picks a near match, not the exact match even though i have the Zero in the formula. Can someone please please help!!
Maybe
=LOOKUP(A10,$A$2:$A$3,$B$2:$B$3)
It's the * in the strings.
That is a special character, used as a wildcard.
So once it encounters a * in the string, it's reading this
KITCHEN & BATH*TOILET/TOILET SEAT*TOILET SEAT*NOT ASSIGNED
like
KITCHEN & BATHandanyothertextafterwards..
Recommend doing a mass find/replace to change * to some other character like ^ for example.
In the find dialogue, you'll have to use ~* to make it look for the literal * symbol.
The asterisks in your lookup value are being interpreted as wildcards, you can use SUBSTITUTE to replace * with ~* where the ~ tells excel to treat the * as a literal asterisk, i.e.
=INDEX($B$2:$B$3,MATCH(SUBSTITUTE(A10,"*","~*"),$A$2:$A$3,0))
or you can use VLOOKUP like
=VLOOKUP(SUBSTITUTE(A10,"*","~*"),$A$2:$B$3,2,0)
Audere est facere
The asterisk in the MATCH function is a wildcard.
=INDEX($B$2:$B$3,MATCH(SUBSTITUTE(A10,"*","~*"),A2:A3,0))
Omg, do I feel so silly! I'm changing all my characters now. Thank you all so much!!
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