Is there a way to use an Index-Match formula where the Match needs to match on a substring in the cell?
For example, I have the following data
SOURCESHEET:
group |
position |
data |
My Group: group1 |
1 |
this is my data |
My Group: group1 |
2 |
more data |
My Group: group2 |
2 |
la-di-da |
My Group: group2 |
1 |
tiddly-winks |
My Group: group3 |
1 |
Funky dance! |
My Group: group3 |
2 |
More dance! |
Another Group: group1 |
1 |
Data comes in |
Another Group: group1 |
2 |
Data goes out |
Of course, in another worksheet, I will want to match group1 and extract the value in the data column at that cell.
If I was performing an exact match, it would look like:
INDEX('SOURCESHEET'!A:C,MATCH('DESTSHEET'!A2,'SOURCESHEET'!A:A,0),3)
where 'DESTSHEET'!A2 has the value of "group1". Of course, this doesn't work because column the column I'm trying to match on has 'My Group: group1'.
Is there a formulaic solution to my situation?
As you may surmise, I will have to take that result and refine it against the Position column. But I'll should be able to figure that out after I solve this substring match issue.
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