Excellent Haseeb.
Probably safer to use FIND instead of SEARCH.
Example: Shanmukh and Sushanth will both return the same vector result for
"Sha".
Since FIND is case sensitive, this would solve that possible error.
Regards,
Sam Mathai Chacko
On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 11:53 PM, Haseeb Avarakkan <
haseeb.avarak...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Let me explain my best. I hope this help.
>
> 9E300;
>
> When you use it in Excel it will changed to 9E+300. It is a scientific
> notation of a big number. 300 zeros after 9, so it is like
> 90000000000000000000…… This will give a big number. As you know LOOKUP will
> always look for the number <=Lookup_Value. So here is
> <=9000000000000000000……………..
>
> SEARCH({"Sa","Su","Sha"},B4);
>
> This will look for the each array in B4, “Sa”,’Su”,”Sha” & will give the
> position (*How many characters after*). For B4 will get like
>
> {1,#VALUE!,#VALUE!}
>
> So here “Sa” contains in starting of B4, rest of the doesn’t. LOOKUP will
> ignore the error values.
>
> In these 3 arrays, position of the Lookup_value is 1 (<=9E300, =1) Lookup
> will give the corresponding value in result_array, which is from
> {"Hero","Boy","Shaan"} = “Hero”
>
> Finally Lookup will like,
>
> LOOKUP(9E+300,{1,#VALUE!,#VALUE!},{"Hero","Boy","Shaan"}) here position
> of lookup value is 1, so 1st value from result_vector = Hero
>
> For B5,
>
> LOOKUP(9E+300,{#VALUE!,1,#VALUE!},{"Hero","Boy","Shaan"}) here position of
> lookup value is 2, so 2nd value from result_vector = Boy
>
> For B6,
> LOOKUP(9E+300,{#VALUE!,#VALUE!,1},{"Hero","Boy","Shaan"}) here position of
> lookup value is 3, so 3rd value from result_vector = Shaan
>
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