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Khalil600
Jan 10, 2022Copper Contributor
Return value based on matching text
Hello everyone, I have sheet contains the correct name and number of clients, another sheet contains clients names only but names are not 100% matches with 1st sheet. I need to return client number f...
Khalil600
Jan 11, 2022Copper Contributor
Thanks SergeiBaklan , any way to match two text based on two or more identical words in both texts, for example, I like drinking coffee, and 2nd text I'm drinking coffee every night, the matching here based on two identical words drinking & coffee, and so o
SergeiBaklan
Jan 11, 2022Diamond Contributor
Not sure. Without predefined words we need to split each text on array of words; exclude from it "a", "the", "and", etc.; exclude characters like "," and "!"; compare lookup array with lookup array of arrays; find row with two or more matches; based on its position return some value.
If possible that's not easy task.
- Khalil600Jan 11, 2022Copper ContributorThanks SergeiBaklan, appreciated your reply.