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Double Xlookup with Wildcards
Hi, I am having trouble with adding a wildcard to my Xlookup formula. When it is using the exact text "Deliver" or a cell reference it works fine but as soon as I try to add a * wildcard before or ...
You should specify the desired results.
=XLOOKUP(1,(Dates>=$E$1)*ISNUMBER(SEARCH($G$1,C4:Q4)),Dates,"no match",0,-1)
Sorry for the confusion, I had changed "Deliver" to my cell reference G$1. If I type in the exact match of Deliver I get the date returned but anything that deviates from the exact match I get nothing. Some times the user needs to be more specific than just Deliver.
As variant
=LET(
next, --(Dates>=TODAY()),
flag, IFERROR(SEARCH(G1,DeliveryData),0),
ind, SEQUENCE(,COLUMNS(Dates)),
pos, MMULT(ind*flag,TRANSPOSE(next)),
IF(pos=0,"-",INDEX(Dates,1,pos)))
- Your solution helped with the wildcard after "Deliver" but nothing for before. It also returns a combined total if more than one instance is observed. I will see if I can tweak it.
You should specify the desired results.
=XLOOKUP(1,(Dates>=$E$1)*ISNUMBER(SEARCH($G$1,C4:Q4)),Dates,"no match",0,-1)- Hi Detlef, with a couple of tweaks I managed to get your solution to work exactly how we need it to. Many thanks.