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Workaround needed for 255 character find limit

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    Workaround needed for 255 character find limit

    Hello,

    I have a problem, I'm using vba to look for a text string in column A, but the text string I'm looking for is greater than 255 characters.

    I need a workaround. I think I have an idea of what I want to do, I just don't know how to do it.

    I think I'd like to search for the first 255 characters (left(Combination, 255)) of my string. If I find the first 255 characters of a string in a cell, then search that specific cell to see if the last 255 characters (right(Combination, 255)) are present. If so, do something

    This is what I worked up so far, but it fails on the second find. Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks!
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    Re: Workaround needed for 255 character find limit

    You could use .Find (with the first 255 characters of your search term) to find a candidate cell and then use InStr to test the candidate cell against the entire search term.
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    Re: Workaround needed for 255 character find limit

    Thanks for the reply! I'm not at all familiar with InStr, how would I use it?

    You could use .Find (with the first 255 characters of your search term) to find a candidate cell and then use InStr to test the candidate cell against the entire search term.

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    Re: Workaround needed for 255 character find limit

    For this example, lets pretend that the limit is 3.
    This routine searches column A for "catalog" by .Finding cells that start with "cat" and then checking to see if they are indeed "catalog" rather than "cat","catastrophy" etc.
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