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dmgiles0528
Feb 17, 2025Copper Contributor
Concatenate or vlookup or something else?
Hello! My first post and I'm not even really sure what formula I am looking for, but I'll try to explain what I need... Along the top of my spreadsheet are the dates of the month. The first column...
- Feb 22, 2025
=LET(range,A1:O9, database,VSTACK(HSTACK("",DROP(TAKE(range,1),,1)),FILTER(DROP(range,1), BYROW(DROP(range,1,1),LAMBDA(x,SUM(N(x="x")))))), IFNA(DROP(REDUCE("",SEQUENCE(ROWS(DROP(database,1))),LAMBDA(u,v, VSTACK(u, LET( rng,TRANSPOSE(VSTACK(TAKE(DROP(database,,1),1),CHOOSEROWS(DROP(DROP(database,,1),1),v))), a,SCAN(0,INDEX(rng,,2),LAMBDA(ini,arr,IF(arr="x",ini+1,0))), b,VSTACK(DROP(a,1),0),c,VSTACK(0,DROP(a,-1)), mapend,MAP(a,b,LAMBDA(aa,bb,IF(AND(aa>1,bb=0),1,0))), mapstart,MAP(a,b,c,LAMBDA(aaa,bbb,ccc,IF(AND(aaa=1,bbb=2,ccc=0),1,0))), start,FILTER(CHOOSECOLS(rng,1),mapstart), end,FILTER(INDEX(rng,,1),mapend), nonconsecutive,FILTER(INDEX(rng,,1),(a=1)*(b=0)), dates,VSTACK(IFERROR(nonconsecutive,""),IFERROR(HSTACK(start,"- "&TEXT(end,"TT.MM.JJJJ")),"")), filtereddates,FILTER(dates,LEN(INDEX(dates,,1))>0), sorteddates,SORTBY(filtereddates,INDEX(filtereddates,,1),1), HSTACK(INDEX(DROP(TAKE(database,,1),1),v),sorteddates))))),1),""))Hello Dawn-Marie,
you are welcome. Unfortunately i didn't understand what you exactly want to do. I was only focussing on consecutive dates which are at least two dates in a row in my understanding. The new formula in addition works if there is only one date like for August or if there isn't any date as for June in my example.
dmgiles0528
Feb 21, 2025Copper Contributor
Hi HansVogelaar,
Thank you for the reply!
Not sure if this will work, but here is the link:
https://onedrive.live.com/edit.aspx?resid=94b6220b142f4524!79714&cid=94b6220b142f4524&CT=1740101068578&OR=ItemsView
I'm almost where I need to be, but not quite. Hoping to get a solution!
Thank you!
HansVogelaar
Feb 21, 2025MVP
The link doesn't work for me.