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Looking at text inside a cell and using a lookup function

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    Looking at text inside a cell and using a lookup function

    I'm trying to get excel to look at the values inside a cell (A2 in my attached example) and compare the second list of 3 alphabet characters to a list on the next tab and then decide if that list of three letters is present and spit out a value in E2. Is there a way to zone in on that area and compare it using a VLookup?

    I did some searching but was unsuccessful in trying a few of the formulas I found.

    Any help would be appreciated.

    Thanks!
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    Re: Looking at text inside a cell and using a lookup function

    So you just want a 0 or 1?

    =--ISNUMBER(MATCH(MID(A2,8,3),Classifications!$B$3:$B$9,0))

    if you want to actual pull a result from the table

    =IF(ISNUMBER(MATCH(MID(A2,8,3),Classifications!$B$3:$B$9,0)),VLOOKUP(MID(A2,8,3),Classifications!$B$3:$C$9,2,0),"")
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    Re: Looking at text inside a cell and using a lookup function

    Outstanding! Thanks!!!

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