When I apply COUNTIF to a range that contains calculations, I get an error message.
To avoid that, can I also narrow the range only to certain columns?
For example, instead of =COUNTIF($A$1:E;F1) something like =COUNTIF($A$1:A AND $C$1:C AND $E$1:E;F1)
So that certain columns like B and D in my example are not included in the range?
You can join the columns with {} and separating columns with "," like this:
=countif({A1:A;C1:C;E1:E},F1)
Try using COUNTIFS instead of COUNTIF with range and criteria as key-value pairs.
=COUNTIFS(A1:A, "=" & F1, C1:C, "=" & F1, E1:E, "=" & F1)
Make sure to replace commas with semicolons for the formula to work in your locale.
Related
I want to filter rows that contain a word in any column (among other text, not an exact match).
E.G.: I'd like to filter any line where the word "blue" appears in any column
you can try:
=QUERY((BYROW(A2:C, LAMBDA(acx,IF(REGEXMATCH(TEXTJOIN("|",1,INDEX(SUBSTITUTE(acx," ","|"))),"blue"),acx,)))),"Select * Where Col1!=''")
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You can use this, it should work with as many column as you have. Let me know!
=FILTER(A:C,BYROW(A:C,LAMBDA(each, REGEXMATCH (CONCATENATE(each),"blue"))))
FILTER() with MMULT() may work. Try-
=FILTER(A2:C7,MMULT(INDEX(--ISNUMBER(SEARCH(E1,A2:C7))),SEQUENCE(COLUMNS(A2:C7),1,1,0)))
You can use E1 as filtering criteria. So make E1 a dropdown and select your desired word on E1 to filter from any column.
You can simplify above formula by using BYROW(). Try-
=FILTER(A2:C7,BYROW(A2:C7,LAMBDA(x,ISNUMBER(SEARCH(E1,JOIN("|",x))))))
I can't seem to find the right equation to find a cell from a row that matches only a few specific characteristics. In this example, I am trying to find the equation for Column D which would be the cell in A that has the same cells for B & C.
Hope this makes sense!
I'll provide two options.
If you're sure your data will only ever have zero or one match, you can place the following formula into D2 of an otherwise empty range D2:D...
=ArrayFormula(IF(A2:A="",,SUBSTITUTE(VLOOKUP(B2:B&C2:C,{B2:B&C2:C,A2:A},2,FALSE)&VLOOKUP(B2:B&C2:C,SORT({B2:B&C2:C,A2:A,ROW(A2:A)},3,0),2,FALSE),A2:A,"")))
However, if you think more than one match may turn up and you want "None" to be returned if there is no match, you can use the following formula in D2 or an otherwise empty range D2:D...
=ArrayFormula(IF(A2:A="",,REGEXREPLACE(REGEXEXTRACT(REGEXREPLACE(SUBSTITUTE(VLOOKUP(B2:B&C2:C,TRIM(SPLIT(FLATTEN(QUERY(QUERY({B2:B&C2:C&"~",A2:A&","}, "Select MAX(Col2) where Col2 IS NOT NULL GROUP BY Col2 PIVOT Col1"),, 9^9)),"~")),2,FALSE),A2:A,""),"^[,\s]+$","None"),"([^,\s].+[^,\s])[,\s]*$"),"[,\s]+",", ")))
The second formula will work even if there will only ever be zero or one match; it's just not necessary to have it be that lengthy. And the second formula is only as lengthy because it was unclear from your posted examples whether the data in Col A, B and C will really only ever be one word or not; so the formula is built to assume there will not always be one-word strings in those columns.
Either formula will provide results for the entire column without dragging.
Here's an option, You can use this formula in column D2:
=iferror(textjoin(", ",true,query($A$2:$C,"Select A where A is not null and A != '"&$A2&"' and B = '"&$B2&"' and C = '"&$C2&"'",0)),"None")
Limitation:
You need to manually drag the formula to its succeeding rows. Arrayformula() cannot be used in looping the query string values.
What it does?
Using query(), filter the data from A2:C that has the same current row last name(Column B) and food(Column C) at the same time having a different first name(Column A)
If there are multiple results, use textjoin() to combine them with ", " as its delimiter.
If there is no matched found, it will return an error, hence use iferror() to set the default value to "None"
Output
Let's say I have a list of strings and I want to remove specific words from them. I can easily use multiple SUBSTITUTE functions, for example, this will remove the strings in B2, B3 and B4 from the string in A2:
=SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(A2,$B$2,""),$B$3,""),$B$4,"")
How can I make this dynamic so that when I add more terms to remove in the B column they'll be removed automatically from A2. I tried the following methods but they didn't work:
1 - add the B cells as an array
=SUBSTITUTE(A2,{$B$2:$B$4},"") or =SUBSTITUTE(A2,{$B$2,$B$3,$B$4},"")
2 - Make a single condition
cat|donkey|mouse
3 - Using Indirect and concatenate - I built the correct function as a string (using REPT and CONCATENATE) and tried to activate it with INDIRECT) but this also failed.
Here's the spreadsheet (Col A are the strings to clea, B are the words to remove, D is the manual method that works, F, H and K are the failed 3 attempts).
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15u8qZ0xQkjvTRrJca6AInoQ4aPkijccouAETE4Gyr9I/edit#gid=0
In the 'Copy' of the tab I entered
=ArrayFormula(IF(LEN(A2:A), REGEXREPLACE(A2:A, TEXTJOIN("|", 1, B2:B),),))
See if that works for you?
EXPLANTION
LEN(A2:A) basically limits the output to the rows that a value in column A
REGEXREPLACE uses a regular expression to replace parts of the string. That regular expression is constructed by the TEXTJOIN function.
TEXTJOIN combines the text from the range B2:B, with a specifiable delimiter separating the different texts. Here the pipe character (which means 'or' in regex) is used. The second paramater of this function is set to TRUE (or 1) so that empty cells selected in the text arguments won't be included in the result.
REFERENCES
TEXTJOIN
REGEXREPLACE
You can also try-
=TEXTJOIN(" ",TRUE,FILTER(SPLIT(A2," "),ISERROR(MATCH(SPLIT(A2," "),$B$2:$B$7,0))))
I have the following google sheet where:
Col a= quantities
Col b= product codes, which i´ve split between C and H.
I want to know the quantity according to different "filters"... this filters are the fields between C11 and H11, and they are optional. There are 6 possible filters.
It works using =QUERY formula located in H12 and it returns the sum of quantity values where the filters match...
BUT there´s the possibility of leaving a filter empty to get "all"...
the query is as follows:
=QUERY(A1:H7, "select sum(A) where C contains '"&C11&"' and lower(D) contains lower('"&D11&"') and E contains '"&E11&"' and lower(F) contains lower('"&F11&"') and lower(G) contains lower('"&G11&"') and lower(H) contains lower('"&H11&"') ",-1)
My problem is with the match type: where C contains '"&C11&"' and...
instead of using "contains" it should compare using "matches". this way it would count like it should, but then it won´t accept empty filters.
How can I get it to count only if the field is filled??
What´s wrong with the filter right now? It´s counting "4" matches because model matches "1" happens when model is 1 or 21, also with column D where i´m looking for value X and is also counting value XN as it contains "X". if formula is changed to "matches" instead of "contains", it won´t allow me to leave it blank.
Thank you!
Karl_S formula is great, but it does not sum the quantities in column A. Adapting his approach to SUMIFS seems to do it:
=SUMIFS(A2:A7,C2:C7, IF(ISBLANK(C11), "<>" ,C11),D2:D7, IF(ISBLANK(D11), "<>" ,D11),E2:E7, IF(ISBLANK(E11), "<>" ,E11),F2:F7, IF(ISBLANK(F11), "<>" ,F11),G2:G7, IF(ISBLANK(G11), "<>" ,G11),H2:H7, IF(ISBLANK(H11), "<>" ,H11))
Use this formula instead:
=COUNTIFS(C2:C7, IF(ISBLANK(C11), "<>" ,C11), D2:D7, IF(ISBLANK(D11), "*",D11), E2:E7, IF(ISBLANK(E11), "<>",E11), F2:F7, IF(ISBLANK(F11), "*",F11), G2:G7, IF(ISBLANK(G11), "*",G11), H2:H7, IF(ISBLANK(H11), "*",H11))
If one of the options is blank, it will match all items in that column. Otherwise it should do an exact match.
I have a data set that looks like this: starting on A1 with "1"
1 a
2 b
3 c
4 d
Column A is an arrayformula =arrayformula(row(b1:b))
Column B is manual input
i want to query the database and finding the row of the item by match column B so i have code as such
=query("A1:B","select A where B like '%c%')
this should give me "3"
My question:
is there a way to pull the 1-4 numbers into the query line? with something like array formula row(b1:b). I don't want to waste an extra column on column A
so basically I want just the manual input and when i query it gives me the row number.
No script code please.
I've tried a few things and it didn't work.
Looking for a solutions that starts with
=query()
You can also use a formula to pull in more than one row in the dataset which matches the condition, if this is important to you:
=arrayformula(filter(row(B:B); B:B="c"))
And you can have wildcard type operators, under certain circumstances (you are going to match text or items that can look like text (so numbers can be treated as text - but boolean will need more steps); that the dataset is not huge), using regular expressions. e.g.
=arrayformula(filter(row(B:B); regexmatch(B:B, "(c|d)")))
You could also use standard spreadsheet wildcard operators, e.g.
=arrayformula(filter(row(B:B); countif(B:B, "*c*")))
Explanation: In this case, the filter will be true when countif is greater than zero, i.e. when it sees something with a letter c in it, since spreadsheets see a value greater than zero as a boolean true and so, for that row where there is a countif match, there will be a a filter match, and so it will display that row (indeed, it is a similar situation with the regexmatch creating a true when there is a match of either c or d, in the case above).
Personally, I wanted to learn regex a bit, so I would go towards the regexmatch option. But that is your choice.
You can also, of course, create the match outside of the cell. This makes it easy to create a list of matches that you want to satisfy elsewhere on the sheet. So you could have a column of words or parts of words, from Z2 downwards, and then join them together in cell Z1 for example like this
="("&join("|",filter(Z2:Z50,len(Z2:Z50)))&")"
Then your filter function would look like this:
=arrayformula(filter(row(B:B), regexmatch(B:B, Z1)))
If you want to use like operator in the query function, you can try something like this:
=arrayformula(query(if({1,0}, B:B,row(B:B)),"select Col2 where Col1 like '%c%' "))
You can also use the regular expressions in the query function, for example:
=arrayformula(query(if({1,0}, B:B,row(B:B)),"select Col2 where Col1 matches '(.*c.*|.*d.*)' "))
I'm not entirely clear on the question, but as I understand it, you want to be able to enter a formula, and have it return the row number of the matched item in a range? I'm not sure where array formulas come in.
If I've understood your question correctly, this should do the trick:
=MATCH("C",B1:B,0)
In your example, this returns 3.
Please forgive me if I've misunderstood your question.
Note: If there are multiple matches, this will return the row number for the first instance of your search.
=QUERY({A1:A,ARRAYFORMULA(ROW(A1:A))},"SELECT Col2 WHERE Col1 LIKE '%c%'")