Re: Wildcards

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Hi

You can use something like
=SUMPRODUCT(--(ISNUMBER(SEARCH("a*a",A1:A10))))
to find any sequence of the letters "a" and "a" with any character in between, anywhere within the cells.


Regards

Roger Govier


irresistible007 wrote:
Is it possible to use Wildcard characters in SumPorduct? here sumproduct
is supposed to act as alternate to conditional summing.


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