Helpful New Functions: ALL and ANY

[Guest]

I'd really like Excel to have an All(range, criteria) function, as used in a
number of programming languages. For instance:

A B C D
1 y y y n
2
3


=ALL(A1:C1, "y") --> TRUE
=ALL(A11, "y") --> FALSE

In a similar vein, the ANY function would be quite handy:

=ANY(A1:C1, "y") --> TRUE
=ANY(A1:C1, "n") --> TRUE
=ANY(A1:C1, "o") --> FALSE

Anyone else think so?

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[Guest]

Think ..

=ALL(A1:C1, "y") --> TRUE
=ALL(A11, "y") --> FALSE

would be the same as using:
=COUNTIF(A1:C1,"y")=COLUMNS(A1:C1)
=COUNTIF(A11,"y")=COLUMNS(A11)

and ..

=ANY(A1:C1, "y") --> TRUE
=ANY(A1:C1, "n") --> TRUE
=ANY(A1:C1, "o") --> FALSE

would be the same as using:
=COUNTIF(A1:C1,"y")>0
=COUNTIF(A1:C1,"n")>0
=COUNTIF(A1:C1,"o")>0

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[Bob Phillips]

See your previous post.

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Bob Phillips

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I'd really like Excel to have an All(range, criteria) function, as used in a
number of programming languages. For instance:

A B C D
1 y y y n
2
3


=ALL(A1:C1, "y") --> TRUE
=ALL(A11, "y") --> FALSE

In a similar vein, the ANY function would be quite handy:

=ANY(A1:C1, "y") --> TRUE
=ANY(A1:C1, "n") --> TRUE
=ANY(A1:C1, "o") --> FALSE

Anyone else think so?

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[Ron Rosenfeld]

I'd really like Excel to have an All(range, criteria) function, as used in a
number of programming languages. For instance:

A B C D
1 y y y n
2
3


=ALL(A1:C1, "y") --> TRUE
=ALL(A11, "y") --> FALSE

In a similar vein, the ANY function would be quite handy:

=ANY(A1:C1, "y") --> TRUE
=ANY(A1:C1, "n") --> TRUE
=ANY(A1:C1, "o") --> FALSE

Anyone else think so?

You could always use the array entered formulas:

=AND(rng="y") for ALL

and

=OR(rng="y") for ANY


--ron

 

[Bob Phillips]

Cute!

You could always use the array entered formulas:

=AND(rng="y") for ALL

and

=OR(rng="y") for ANY


--ron

 

[Ron Rosenfeld]

Thanks.

Cute!


--ron

 

[Stephen Bye]

I'd really like Excel to have an All(range, criteria) function, as used in
a
number of programming languages. For instance:

Just out of curiosity, can you tell me a programming language other than SQL
that has an ALL or ANY function?