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    Question Partial vlookup help

    I have a list of product codes and the number of characters vary. I'm trying to lookup a product from my product list to a partial part number, returning the partial part number. The first list is my product list and the second list is the partial part list. The difficulty in this is that the partial part list isn't nessarily the first few characters of the product, some are the first few characters and some are characters in the middle of the list. Does anyone know if there's away to look these up?

    Product Codes
    USX2065-JZX-TR
    LAN8710A-EZC-TR
    SEC1300-JZX-01G1
    USX2064-AEZG-TR
    USB5434-3086JZX-TR


    Partial Part #
    X2065
    LAN8710
    SEC1300
    2064
    3086JZ

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    Re: Partial vlookup help

    It's dangerous, but have your tried the SEARCH function?

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    Re: Partial vlookup help

    Hello & Welcome to the Forum,

    Not 100% sure what you are trying to achieve, but if I understand you correctly, in A1:A5 you have the Product Codes and say in B1:B5 you would like to return the Partial Part # if it matches the list.

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    In B1 copied down...

    =LOOKUP(9.99999999999999E+307,SEARCH(MyWordList,$A1),MyWordList)

    MyWordList is a named range with the Partial Part # list...
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    Re: Partial vlookup help

    You can try this file as well.
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    Re: Partial vlookup help

    Quote Originally Posted by ramananhrm View Post
    You can try this file as well.

    Thanks, that excel sheet helped a lot.

    In Model 4, what is 2^15,1 doing or what does it mean?
    =+LOOKUP(2^15,1/(ISNUMBER(SEARCH($A$9:$A$13,A6))),$A$9:$A$13)
    Last edited by MrsBing; 08-20-2013 at 12:15 PM.

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    Re: Partial vlookup help

    LOOKUP(lookup_value,lookup_vector,result_vector) has 3 parameters separated by commas (so 2^15,1 is actually 2^15 and the 1 is part of the second parameter)

    2^15 is just the lookup_value (it's just a large number like Jeff's 9.99E+307)

    1/(ISNUMBER(SEARCH($A$9:$A$13,A6))) produces a lookup_vector that produces an array of errors except the one successful searched item

    $A$9:$A$13 is the result_vector

    Hope this helps...

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