Wow! Thanks i'll look into that and maybe try to adapt it. The strings are of
variable length from 1 to 3 characters. What i came up with (bypassing VLOOKUP
altogether) was
=CONCATENATE (MID ($J$2, FIND(LEFT (A2,1), $J $3),1),IFERROR(MID($J$2, FIND
(MID (A2,2,1), $J $3),1," "),IFERROR (MID ($J $2,FIND (MID (A2,3,1), $J
$3,1),1," "))
(I think); which takes each character from the string in A2, gets the position
of that character in the string held in J2, then extracts the corresponding
character from the string held in J3 and concatenates it to the result. In the
case of the string being less than 3 characters, MID () will return an error
which will result in " " concatenated instead. Null string would have been
better but in my case space works just as well.
Its very cumbersome (and more so because in my actual file the strings J2 and
J3 are in fact located on a different sheet); but it does what i need and thats
all i demand of it!
Best
Gary
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On Fri, 10/3/17, Michael D. Setzer II <mi...@kuentos.guam.net> wrote:
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] vlookup case
To: "Gary Collins" <gcatl...@yahoo.co.uk>, users@global.libreoffice.org,
"Brian Barker" <b.m.bar...@btinternet.com>
Date: Friday, 10 March, 2017, 11:25
I was doing some testing
with single characters, but then saw it was three
characters. Originally, just used the code of
the character, changed code to
ascii, but
with 3 multiple each value to get a number that matched.
In both put the row number in next column.
Put the match field in C15
both the formulas work, both formulas give the
row.
abc
1
97098099
1
aBc
2
97066099
2
aBC
3
97066067
3
Abc
4
65098099
4
AbC
5
65098067
5
Abc
6
65098099
6
Ab
7
65098000
7
aCb
8
97067098
8
AcB
9
65099066
9
aBC
10
97066067
10
AAC
11
65065067
11
ss
12
115115000
12
aBC
97066067
3
“=VLOOKUP($C$15,C1:D12,2,0)
3
“{=INDEX(B1:B12,MATCH(1,EXACT($C$15,A1:A12),0))}
Formula in
C
“=CODE(MID(A15,1,1))*1000000+CODE(MID(A15,2,1))*1000+CODE(MID(A15,3,1))
On 10 Mar
2017 at 9:46, Gary Collins wrote:
Date sent: Fri, 10 Mar 2017
09:46:22 +0000 (UTC)
From:
Gary Collins <gcatl...@yahoo.co.uk>
Send reply to: Gary Collins <gcatl...@yahoo.co.uk>
To: <users@global.libreoffice.org>,
Brian Barker
<b.m.bar...@btinternet.com>
Copies to: Gary Collins <gcatl...@yahoo.co.uk>
Subject: Re:
[libreoffice-users] vlookup case
> Thanks for very helpful reply. It does
seem to be a big drawback with these functions. I'll
certainly try it but ive found a workaround that im using at
the mo: ive defined two strings in adjacent cells and using
string functions to find the position of a character in one
string then extract the corresponding character from the
other. Much less elegant and it was quite tiresome to
implement but ive at least got it to work, in the limited
cases that im using it so far. If i extend it to
transliterate strings of arbitrary length (for now the max
length ive needed is 3 chars) then i guess i'll probably
have to get into macros.
> Thanks
> G.
>
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> On Thu, 9/3/17, Brian Barker <b.m.bar...@btinternet.com>
wrote:
>
> Subject:
Re: [libreoffice-users] vlookup case
>
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
> Cc: "Gary Collins" <gcatl...@yahoo.co.uk>
> Date: Thursday, 9 March, 2017, 23:17
>
> At 11:50 09/03/2017
+0000, Gary
> Collins wrote:
> >Is it possible to make the search
performed by vlookup
> to be case
sensitive?
>
>
Apparently not!
>
>
>I need to be able to distinguish between eg 'd'
and 'D'
> but at the
> >moment i cant work out how to do it
(if it's possible)
>
> Suppose your array has the values to be
searched in column A
> and the
> values to be returned in column B. Then
try:
>
=INDEX(B1:Bn;MATCH(1;EXACT("text";A1:An);0))
> Note that this is an array formula, so
when you have entered
> it you
> must complete the process by pressing
Ctrl+Shift+Enter. If
> you do
> this successfully, the entire formula
will appear in the
> Input line
> surrounded by braces, but you cannot
simply type these
> braces yourself.
>
> This relies on
EXACT() being the one function that *is*
> case-sensitive.
>
> I trust this helps.
>
> Brian Barker
>
>
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