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IF CONTAIN WITHIN FIELD ON TABLE

Dear Tim

 

another question coming ...

i have table with categories from each name of product .

im looking the way how to get STATUS by text contains .

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if CATEGORY contain AA then A , else B

 

Thanks

Syaiful

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Anonymous
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giving error result

"The search Text provided to function 'SEARCH' could not be found in the given text."

 

i found solution

i used this

status= if(search("AA",table[category],0,1),"A","B")

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amitchandak
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Create a new Column not measure

 

status= if(table[category]="AA","A","B")

 

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Anonymous
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thanks for respond ,
anyway im looking for contain , not only based on IF .
let say i have AA1,AA2,AA3 . all result on AA ..

 

Thanks

Syaiful

Use search

status= if(search("AA",table[category])>0,"A","B")
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Anonymous
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giving error result

"The search Text provided to function 'SEARCH' could not be found in the given text."

 

i found solution

i used this

status= if(search("AA",table[category],0,1),"A","B")

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