I was trying to make simple check of vlookup:
=IF(ISERROR(VLOOKUP(B2;SA!C:K;2;FALSE));"Error";VLOOKUP(B2;SA!C:K;2;FALSE))
Issue is that i got two different results for two empty cells.
Error
and
0
All cells are with the same type: General. Do not see why this is different :/
I was expecting message in case of iserror = TRUE (cell is empty). This case "Error".
Sample file: https://www.dropbox.com/s/jzoq9530qxtig38/ZZZ.xlsm?dl=0.
In C2 use the following formula:
=IFERROR(IF(LEN(INDEX(SA!$D:$K,MATCH($B2,SA!$C:$C,0),COLUMN(A1)))=0,"error",INDEX(SA!$D:$K,MATCH($B2,SA!$C:$C,0),COLUMN(A1))),"error")
Edit, since you don't really want to show "error" but "" instead, you could also try:
=IFERROR(INDEX(SA!$D:$K,MATCH($B2,SA!$C:$C,0),COLUMN(A1))&""),"error")
You are getting 0 because VLOOKUP found key, however the value next to it was empty.
To mark those as Error as well use:
=IF(LEN(IFERROR(VLOOKUP(B2;SA!C:K;2;FALSE);"Error"))=0;"Error";IFERROR(VLOOKUP(B2;SA!C:K;2;FALSE);"Error"))
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I have xlookup function searching range F1:F44 for the text in F2 and then returning the match:
XLOOKUP(TRUE,ISNUMBER(FIND(F2,F1:F44)),F1:F44,,2)
However I need to exclude entries if they include text listed in array A1:A10.
I have tried switching over to something like this with the NOT, but always get an error:
=XLOOKUP(TRUE,(ISNUMBER(FIND(F2,F1:F44))*NOT(A1:A10),F1:F44))
I also tried
=XLOOKUP(TRUE,ISNUMBER(FIND(F2,F1:F44)*NOT(FIND(A1,F1:F44))),F1:F44,"no match",2)
but in this case the result being returned contains the value in A1 that is supposed to be excluded with the "NOT".
Tried applying this suggestion:
=XLOOKUP(1,ISNUMBER(FIND(G2,DumpSample!F1:F44))*(MMULT(--ISNUMBER(FIND(TRANSPOSE(exclude!A1:A8),DumpSample!F1:F44)),SEQUENCE(ROWS(exclude!A1:A8)))=0),DumpSample!F1:F44,"no match",2)
and it seems to be working.
use
=XLOOKUP(1,ISNUMBER(FIND(F2,F1:F44))*(MMULT(--ISNUMBER(FIND(TRANSPOSE(A1:A10),F1:F44)),SEQUENCE(ROWS(A1:A10)))=0),F1:F44,"no match",2)
The MMULT()=0 will return an array of TRUE/FALSE. TRUE if none of the values in A1:A10 are found in the cell, FALSE if found
Also where multiplying two Boolean we get either 1 or 0 so instead of TRUE we need to look for 1
When I running formula =ISNUMBER(SEARCH($B$2,$A3)), the output is true. Cell B2= "Red" and "Red" appears in cell A3. The condition is TRUE.
This formula fails when cell E2 is blank. There are no spaces or hidden characters.
Why is =ISNUMBER(SEARCH(E$2,$A3)) returning True?
You need to first check if E2 is blank and then proceed with ISNUMBER if true
=IF(ISBLANK(E$2), FALSE, ISNUMBER(SEARCH(E$2,$A3)))
SEARCH will interpret blanks as empty strings.
Another approach to what it looks like you're trying to do is to replace the substring with an empty string and see if the length changes:
=LEN($A2)>LEN(SUBSTITUTE($A2,E$1,""))
So, two variations, one as per the other answer but the other using find().
For the first, it returns a blank.
For the second with find() then iferror will deal with the value error.
I have the following formula in Excel.
=IF(ISERROR(MATCH(G1,$A$1:$A$62052,0)),"NO Match","Match")
The trouble is it only shows Match when the data matches and Match when the data does not match. What is wrong with my logic?
It appears that I am getting Match and No Match but because I am dealing with large columns there was a delay in the cell updating when I changed the a data cell in the G column. The formula works. Thanks for your time.
Why are you using ISERROR?
ISERROR will return FALSE if your formula does not return an error.
So if
MATCH(G1,$A$1:$A$62052,0)
doesn't return an error, the first argument will return FALSE, and the output will be 'Match'.
I'm not sure exactly what you're trying to do, but I think you want
=IF(MATCH(G1, $A$1:$A$62052, 0), "NO Match", "Match")
I have a very seriously weird problems with Excel formula. Refer the following formula:
=INDEX(C7:D9, MATCH(H2, B7:B9, 0), MATCH(H3, C6:D6, 0))
Please assume the H2 and H3 is linked from some other formula which yield the value from B7:B9 and C6:D6 respectively. My problem is that the result is #N/A instead of returning value from the INDEX ARRAY.
The main problem is, that we don't know what H2:H3 returns
Taking your formula:
=INDEX(C7:D9, MATCH(H2, B7:B9, 0), MATCH(H3, C6:D6, 0))
H2 needs an output like Below 42°!
if there is only a number like 53 replace MATCH(H2, B7:B9, 0) with something like 1+(H2>=42)+(H2>58). However, if you got 53° you also need to replace H2 with something like NUMBERVALUE(LEFT(H2,LEN(H2)-1))
Same goes for H3: You need to get a return like "< 25". Asuming you only get a number, you need to replace MATCH(H3, C6:D6, 0) with something like 1+(H3>=25).
At least, it's not clear if thats the real problem. We really need to know the return values from H2 and H3.
You get #N/A because the MATCH-function fails. I'm almost certain it fails because the content of H2 is not type compatible with the contents in B7:B9 (or H3 not compatible with C6:D6).
Since you have string-type in B7:B9, H2 must also be string-type and the string must identically match one of the strings in B7:B9. If it matches none of them it throws #N/A.
If MATCH is unsuccessful in finding a match, it returns the #N/A error
value.
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/MATCH-function-e8dffd45-c762-47d6-bf89-533f4a37673a
If there is a type-mismatch, the function will automatically fail unless Excel can cast it to the right type on the fly (and understands that it is supposed to do that), because failure to complete the comparison naturally defaults to "no match" ~~> #N/A.
Examine the datatypes you are comparing and fix the discrepancies, and your formula will work.
Sorry guys for being unclear in my post. Well I finally fixed the problem by replacing "1" instead of "0" on my MATCH functions. I don't know why but it fixes the #N/A error.
I am trying in include an IF statement to say that if the cell says "PAINT" do one thing and if it says anything else, do another (VLOOKUP) If The cell says PAINT then it works as it should. However, if the cell says anything else then I get a value of "FALSE". I am new to VLOOKUP so I suspect that could very well be the problem.
Thank you
=IF(N20="Paint",P20-(VLOOKUP(B20,CODES!$F$2:$G$22,P20-(VLOOKUP(B20,CODES!$J$2:$K$22,2)))))
You will need to do something like
=IF(N20="paint",VLOOKUP(B20,CODES!$F$2:$G$22,2,0),VLOOKUP(B20,CODES!$J$2:$K$22,2,0))
At the end of your first VLOOKUP you need to specify which column to return the value from on your 'CODES' sheet, I've pointed to Col G by using '2' and '0' returns an exact match. Then close the 'True' VLOOKUP and start your False VLOOKUP