SUMPRODUCT with "Contains" criteria

[Guest]

Good afternoon,
Is there any way in which SumProduct can be used with a "contains" criteria
- for instance, A1:100 contains product codes (for example) AZ1A1100,
ABCZ1A1200, 1A1300 and B1:B100 contains total sales for these products. I
want to extract values from column B for (for example) all products that
CONTAIN the string "1A".
I realise that I could use LEFT, RIGHT or MID as long as the "1A" appears in
the same place in the string, but I want something to cater for the times
when it doesn't.
Thanks in advance
Pete

 

[Guest]

One way

In C1:
=SUMPRODUCT(--ISNUMBER(SEARCH("1A",A1:A100)),B1:B100)

Replace SEARCH with FIND if you need it to be a stricter case sensitive
search. SEARCH is not case sensitive.

 

[Guest]

=SUMPRODUCT(--(NOT(ISERROR(FIND("1A",A1:A100)))),B1:B100)

Regards,
Stefi

„Pete Rooney†ezt írta:

 

[Ron Coderre]

Try something like this:

With D1 containing the ProdCode segment to find (eg 1A)

This formula returns the sum of sales for ProdCodes containing that code:
E1: =SUMIF(A1:A100,"*"&D1&"*",B1:B100)

Is that something you can work with?
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Regards,

Ron (XL2003, Win XP)
Microsoft MVP (Excel)

 

[Guest]

Max,

Awesome - Singapore to Cheshire UK in less than 5 minutes.

Thank you very much!

Pete

 

[Guest]

Ron,

This works fine, too!

Thank you very much.

Pete

 

[Max]

welcome, Pete.

 

[Guest]

Hi, Stefi,

This works too, as long as you want "1A" only and not "1A" OR "1a".

Thanks very much!

Pete

 

[Dave Peterson]

If you change Find to Search, it will treat 1A and 1a the same.

 

[Guest]

I'm glad I could help......Thanks for the feedback.

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Regards,
Ron

XL2003, WinXP