Forum Discussion
Separate 1 column into 3 or more parts.
I need to separate 1 column into 3 columns, such as top 1/3, middle 1/3, bottom 1/3. Or better yet, I would like to separate 1 column into "n" columns...i.e. top 1/4, next 1/4 and so on.
Goodie1455 Try this:
=LET(in,A1:A123,cols,B1,WRAPCOLS(SORT(in,,-1),ROUNDUP(ROWS(in)/cols,0),""))
where A1:A123 is the array and B1 is the number of columns you want and the -1 inside the SORT is to go high to low but change to 1 (or delete) to go low to high
I completely agree with the idea but why not follow through and create a λ-function?
The formula is
GroupByRankλ(array, columns) = LET( rows, 1 + QUOTIENT(ROWS(arr) - 1, cols), return, WRAPCOLS(SORT(arr, , -1), rows, ""), return )Of course, it is longer but, eventually, I plan to follow Craig Hatmaker and create really long, perfectly-documented formulas.
