Alternative to vlookup with index and match in excel

Question

Cell A1: 0553400710 
Cell A2: John
Cell B1: ['0553400710', '0553439406']

Note:

1. Cell B1 has a fixed format of ['number','number,'number',...... ]
2. A1 and A2 are user input values
3. I want to match 0553400710 in Cell A1 with ['0553400710', '0553439406'] in Cell B1.

If it matches, I want to return A2: John.

Is it possible?

I have asked the question before here . it has all the pictures attached as well. Unfortunately no one except one could solve it.

The one who gave me a nearest answer was Jeeped whose answer is

=IFERROR(INDEX(A:A, MATCH("*"&A1&"*",B:B, 0)+1), "")

The problem with this is that it takes the column array instead of rows array. I need it to be in rows as its the best practice for a database. Is there anyone who can improve this solution?

I have also tried vlookup as below but it failed

Here is the data for reference

and here is the input i am trying to match

Answer 1

Is it possible?

=IF(ISNUMBER(SEARCH(A1,B1)),A2,"number not found")

This will work for your example at the top. If A1 looks like ['0553400710'] you could try using SUBSTITUTE formula to remove punctuation.

Not sure what you were trying to do in the bottom bit, sorry.