Partial Cell include in table Excel

Question

I have a list of companies such as :

COCA
COCA COLA
SPRITE

An other list of companies is given, more detailled.

Is the cell a substring of at least one element of the list ?

COCA COLA USA    TRUE
PEPSI            FALSE
SPIRIT           FALSE

I have tried with approximate match but the result is wrong. I would like something like this :

=EQUIV([@Company_long_name];"*"&Table[Company]&"*";0)

Thanks for reading

Answer 1

In VBA you could do something like this:

Sub findIfSubString()
   Dim ws1, ws2 As Worksheet

   Set ws1 = Worksheets("Tabelle1")
   Set ws2 = Worksheets("Tabelle2")

   i = 1


   Do While ws1.Cells(i, 1) <> ""

        j = 1
        ws2.Cells(i, 2) = "FALSE"
        Do While ws2.Cells(j, 1) <> ""
            If InStr(ws2.Cells(i, 1), ws1.Cells(i, 1)) Then
                ws2.Cells(i, 2) = "TRUE"
                Exit Do
            Else
                j = j + 1
            End If
        Loop
        i = i + 1
   Loop

End Sub

Change your code accordingly to your format. From your example, "COCA", "COCA COLA" and "SPRITE" would be in column 1 of ws1 and both other set would be in columns 1 and 2 of ws2

EDIT: Code looks now for possible in string-matches for all entries.

Answer 2

more than one way to do this, pick the one you are more comfortable with

method 1 formula

=SUM(IFERROR(MATCH("*"&($A$2:$A$4)&"*",$B2,0),0))>0

method 2 formula

=LARGE(COUNTIF(B2,"*"&$A$2:$A$4&"*"),1)>0

Note: this is array formula. it is not single array formula but seprate array for each cell. so first put formula into single cell (start at row 2 for my formula), then CTRL+D to to fill down.