any way to make vlookup case sensitive?

[Guest]

I'm using vlookup for translating a code into a decode value. The codes are
in both lowercase and uppercase, unfortunately with the same values (e.g.,
cnv and CNV represent 2 different things). Anyone know how to make vlookup
case sensitive? Or is there another fancy excel function that can provide
the equivalent functionality?

Thanks!

 

[Peo Sjoblom]

One way (albeit replacing vlookup with another formula)

Assume the vlookup would look like this

=VLOOKUP(A1,C250,2,0)

to lookup a case sensitive string from A1 in column C and return the values
from D would be

=INDEX(D250,MATCH(1,--ISNUMBER(FIND(A1,C2:C50)),0))

entered with ctrl + shift & enter

 

[Don Guillett]

try this where the lookup value is in columnc and the value you need is in
col D
This is an ARRAY formula so needs to be entered with ctrl+shift+enter

=INDEX(D21100,MATCH(TRUE,EXACT(C21:C100,"C"),0))

 

[Guest]

Getting closer, but the FIND pulls in an earlier lookup decode that simply
contains the searched for item. For example, if one of my lookup values is
"F", your solution returns the column B for "CFD" - I assume since it finds
the "F" in "CFD" before it gets to the "F" entry (the lookup decode list is
in alphabetical order). hmm...tricky.

Any more suggestions?

Thanks!

 

[Peo Sjoblom]

=INDEX(D250,MATCH(1,--EXACT(C2:C50,A1),0))

also array entered

 

[Guest]

Worked perfectly! Pretty clever - thanks again!

=INDEX(D250,MATCH(1,--EXACT(C2:C50,A1),0))

also array entered

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Regards,

Peo Sjoblom