如何计算包含“字符串”的单元格

Question

I have a spreadsheet containing 2800+ rows of server names. When we decommission a server the server name is appended with ".decom". I need a count of how many in the column contain the ".decom". In sql I would have used a simple "like '%decom%', but I am not sure how to do this in excel or if it is even possible.

Answer 1

Use COUNTIF() with a wildcard string. Just do this:

=COUNTIF(A1:A100,"*.decom")

(Assumes your range is A1:A100 , so modify as needed.)

Answer 2

Can you use v-lookup and specify a wild card?

=VLOOKUP("*"&C1&"*",author_names!A1:B100,1,FALSE)

If you need to check if a string is contained in another string you can use SEARCH or FIND .

Answer 3

JonH -- wild cards are not permitted in vlookup() , however they can be used with index(match())

eg: index( author_names!a1:a100,match("*"&c1&"*",author_names!a1:a100,0))

note the return value is the value of the first matching wild card found.

BTW: your vlookup() example specifies 2 columns (A &B) but you're returning only the first column value (1), so my example does the same... if you really meant to return the value of the second column in the vlookup() , change my example to 'author_names!b1:b100', immediately following 'index('.