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abrasington
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8 years ago
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Comparing strings between two separate sheets for True/False result

Hi there, new to BI and loving it so far. I would like to do the following:   Create a custom column on one sheet, which compares the string in one of the Columns (Let's say Column A) against the s...
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    8 years ago

    abrasington

     

    According to your description, you have "find string" in Column A, then you want to search Column A, if the delimited string is included in any Column A entry, then return TRUE, otherwise FALSE. Right?

     

    In this scenario, you can put SEARCH() function into SUMX() to get the total index for each delimited string. Please see my sample below:

     

    Column = IF(SUMX(String,SEARCH(Word[Word],String[String],,0))>0,1,0)

     

    Regards,