index match not working

mifala.chris

I have the following formula to find the closest match to my first column from two lists extracted from different programs, i.e. Shakedown list and Exto List. I have identified the unique identifiers and was going to build nested IF(HAS(INDEX(MATCH statements to return the near matches. However, my first formular returns an error when I know the second column ends with the same 5 characters as the first, and I expected a match.

FORMULA; =IF(HAS([Shakedown List]@row, "0.5"), INDEX([Exto List]:[Exto List], MATCH(RIGHT([Shakedown List]@row, 5), [Exto List]:[Exto List], 0)), "messy")

Nick Korna

Hi @mifala.chris

You probably want to use INDEX & COLLECT here, something along the lines of:

=IF(CONTAINS("0.5", [Shakedown List]@row), IFERROR(INDEX(COLLECT([Exto List]:[Exto List], [Exto List]:[Exto List], CONTAINS(RIGHT([Shakedown List]@row, 5), @cell)), 1), "Messy"))

Rough data:

Hopefully this helps, any problems/questions just post them up!

Nick Korna

Hi @mifala.chris

You probably want to use INDEX & COLLECT here, something along the lines of:

=IF(CONTAINS("0.5", [Shakedown List]@row), IFERROR(INDEX(COLLECT([Exto List]:[Exto List], [Exto List]:[Exto List], CONTAINS(RIGHT([Shakedown List]@row, 5), @cell)), 1), "Messy"))

Rough data:

Hopefully this helps, any problems/questions just post them up!

Paul Newcome

Try a CONTAINS instead of a HAS function as well as an INDEX/COLLECT instead of an INDEX/MATCH.

mifala.chris

Thanks Nick and Paul now all I have to do is make this work for all my unique Identifiers.