I have one array formula which is behaving differently to all of my others.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/150rfbeuUW9RuG-iX6EGZAP83iOGr0KG_pn1ts-SXKoU/edit?usp=sharing
I just can't get 'Country Rating'!H2 to return the results I want and for some reason isn't counting the data in D:D correctly. 'Country Rating'!J2 is almost identical and seems to be working fine. I've narrowed it down to being an issue relating to the last "-" in the H2 formula but can't get any further.
I'm sure this is a very basic thing that I'm missing but it's driving me mad!
You need to use those regex matches '.*Vegetarian.*' and matches '.*Vegan.*' as matches returns true only in case of a full match.
Also .*Vegan* was missing . before the last *, meaning zero or more n chars at the end.
And be aware that regex in matches is case sensitive and flags do not work there: you cannot use this (?i).*vegan.* for example.
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Example Sheet I'm trying to get an exact match with an array in the criteria section of dget. Maybe there is another way to work around this, but I'm trying to give it a dynamic component in the array.
=dget('Micro Data'!$A$1:J,"PCR Score",{"Micro Type","Stage Type","Tank","ID#";"PCR PAL","Bright",F2,H2})
Sometimes all criteria matches multiple data points except the "Tank". However the tanks won't exactly match. Ex. All the data is the same in two data sets, except the tanks are CT1 and CT18. This then comes up with the #NUM! error. I'm trying to find if there is a way to get an exact match in the array data while still allowing it to reference the cell?
I know there is the option of making it "=XXX" making it a txt string, but this would take away the dynamic function. I would also loose the auto updating aspect when more data is added.
Thanks
Ryan, see my solution using a query, in Retain Log-GK, cell F2. I think it is just as dynamic as the dget, but perhaps not. It will need some error wrapping to avoid errors if no result found.
Formula is basically:
=query('Criteria Source'!A2:J5,
"select J where B = '"&D9&"' and C = '"&D10&"' and E = '"&D11&"' and D ='"& D2 & "' ",0)
I made all of the criteria dynamic, though obviously you can do it whatever way suits you best...
Let me know of any questions. I'll check back later...
I am trying to match a list of range with certain criteria in a google spreadsheet. I am using DGET function for the same. Everything is working fine but the problem comes when there are many entries that contain the whole string and I receive "More than one match found in DGET evaluation.".
For the better understanding look below:
Sheet "Form Responses 1":
B
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Ronald
Ronaldo
Ronaldinho
Rebarto
Matching sheet entries:
A
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Ronald
Rebarto
Juhino
My Formula is:
=DGET('Form Responses 1'!B:H,"Date",{"Email Address","Logging In or Logging out ?","Date";A2,$B$1,$H$1})
Now the problem is Ronald is matching with "Ronald","Ronaldo" and "Ronaldinho" and I am receiving the error which says "multiple entries found".
How do we solve this?
I solved the problem by Concatenating a constant variable before and after the name. For example Ronaldo becomes mRonamdom and Ronald becomes mRonaldm. This makes the Names Unique and solves the problem.
If you don't want to modify the data but to fix the formula so it doesn't get confused with similar entries in your database parameter you can add a character to the criteria field of the dget function as shown below (I'm using an '=' sign concatenated to the value I want to match with in the database parameter)
=dget(database!$A$1:$B$11,$M$1,{"columnName";"="&F2})
where
A1:B11 is my database
M1 is the matching column name
and "="&F2 is the field with the caracter I chose that I want to match with to retrieve values from the matching database column, now even if the there are more than one matches found (becuase matching substrings"), the addition of the caracter contatenated with the matching value, should take care of the in-accurate error.
Can this (Google Sheet) =IFS syntax be improved?
=IFS(and(E42>E38;E42>E34;E42>E30;E42>E26;E42>E22;E42>E18); "Cattleman";
and(E38>E42;E38>E34;E38>E30;E38>E26;E38>E22;E38>E18); "Naturalist";
and(E34>E42;E34>E38;E34>E30;E34>E26;E34>E22;E34>E18); "Farmer";
and(E30>E42;E30>E38;E30>E34;E30>E26;E30>E22;E30>E18); "Carpenter";
and(E26>E42;E26>E38;E26>E30;E26>E34;E26>E22;E26>E18); "Blacksmith";
and(E22>E42;E22>E38;E22>E30;E22>E34;E22>E26;E22>E18); "Miner";
and(E18>E42;E18>E38;E18>E30;E18>E34;E18>E22;E18>E26); "Builder")
And how can I add a default value so that if this syntax returns FALSE it doesn't say #N/A! in the cell, but "No class" or something similar instead (or empty)?
One obvious way would be to replace the ANDs with a MAX. Why? In the first line, if E42 is greater than all of the other cells, it must be greater than the MAX of them. So the condition in this line
E42 > MAX(E38; E34; E30; E26; E22; E18)
which looks much cleaner. Repeat for the other lines.
Trying to simplify it more, the logic of the formula seems to be that depending on which of the cells is the greatest, you choose a particular literal value. There is a function for that! I'd try this (can't test it though without access to your data)
=CHOOSE(
MATCH(
MAX(E42; E38; E34; E30; E26; E22; E18);
{E42; E38; E34; E30; E26; E22; E18});
"Cattleman"; "Naturalist"; "Farmer"; "Carpenter"; "Blacksmith"; "Miner"; "Builder")
wrap it in IFERROR like this:
=IFERROR(IFS(
AND(E42>E38;E42>E34;E42>E30;E42>E26;E42>E22;E42>E18);"Cattleman";
AND(E38>E42;E38>E34;E38>E30;E38>E26;E38>E22;E38>E18);"Naturalist";
AND(E34>E42;E34>E38;E34>E30;E34>E26;E34>E22;E34>E18);"Farmer";
AND(E30>E42;E30>E38;E30>E34;E30>E26;E30>E22;E30>E18);"Carpenter";
AND(E26>E42;E26>E38;E26>E30;E26>E34;E26>E22;E26>E18);"Blacksmith";
AND(E22>E42;E22>E38;E22>E30;E22>E34;E22>E26;E22>E18);"Miner";
AND(E18>E42;E18>E38;E18>E30;E18>E34;E18>E22;E18>E26);"Builder");
"No class")
I am currently using this formula to get all the data from everyone whose first name is "Peter", but my problem is that if someone is called "Simon Peter" this data is gonna show up on the formula output.
=QUERY('Data'!1:1000,"select * where B contains 'Peter'")
I know that for the other formulas if I add an * to the String this issue is resolved. But in this situation for the QUERY formula the same logic do not applies.
Do someone knows the correct syntax or a workaround?
How about classic SQL syntax
=QUERY('Data'!1:1000,"select * where B like 'Peter %'")
The LIKE keyword allows use of wildcard % to represent characters relative to the known parts of the searched string.
See the query reference: developers.google.com/chart/interactive/docs/querylanguage You could split firstname and lastname into separate columns, then only search for firstnames exactly equal to 'Peter'. Though you may want to also check if lowercase/uppercase where lower(B) contains 'peter' or whitespaces are present in unexpected places (e.g., trim()). You could also search only for values that start with Peter by using starts with instead of contains, or a regular expression using matches. – Brian D
It seems that for my case using 'starts with' is a perfect fit. Thank you!
I would like to split a string by a separator and get only the last part. I
don't care about the rest. I know I can do:
local last
for p in string.gmatch('file_name_test', '_%w+$') do last = p end
Which works, but is, IMHO, ugly.
Is there a more elegant way to say:
local last = string.gmatch('file_name_test', '_%w+$')[1]
Which doesn't work because gmatch returns an iterator (and not a table).
Use string.match which is not an iterator:
local last = string.match('file_name_test', '_(%w+)$')
print (last) --> test
Although the other answers do give you a correct answer for your situation, I am going to propose an answer to your question. Which was to get the first item from an iterator.
And the answer is actually quite simple. Since an iterator is just something that continues to return until it returns nil, we just have to call it!
local first = string.gmatch('file_name_test', '_%w+$')()
I am quite confused however, because in your question you also ask about the last thing it will return. I'm sad to say you cannot do this without iterating over them all, because an iterator cannot "jump ahead".
The pattern _%w+$ will only ever return a single match. That's because you anchored it at the end of the string, so it can only either match or fail to match (if there isn't an underscore followed by at least one %w character at the end).
The g* series of pattern matching are for iterating over a sequence of matches. If you want all the matches all at once (returned as multiple return values), use the non-g-prefixed functions. Like string.match:
string.match('file_name_test', '_%w+$')
If there is no match, then you'll get nil back.