检查文本列A中的字符串，并返回列B中的另一个字符串-Excel

Question

I am trying to lookup one of 3 strings (Blue, Red, Green) in column A. In column AI have:

row1: "Robert has Blue shorts"

row2: "Maria has a Red dress"

row3: "John has a Green car"

Whenever I find one of those 3 words in column A, I want to populate column B with the found instance (Green, Red, Blue).

There will always be one of these 3 words in column A, never more than one and the position of the words can be anywhere in the string.

I know how to put this in Python or SQL but I am struggling with Excel.

Can anyone share a solution if they used this in past?

Answer 1

You can use this array formula:

=INDEX({"Red","Blue","Green"},MATCH(TRUE,ISNUMBER(SEARCH({" Red "," Blue "," Green "}," " & A1 & " ")),0))

Being an array formula it must be confirmed with Ctrl-Shift-Enter when exiting edit mode. If done correctly then Excel will put {} around the formula.

As a note:

You can also replace the {"Red","Blue","Green"} with a range reference. So if the three words were in D1:D3 the formula would be:

=INDEX($D$1:$D$3,MATCH(TRUE,ISNUMBER(SEARCH(" " & $D$1:$D$3 & " "," " & A1 & " ")),0))