Excel check if cell contains text from list and return value from list

Question

I've seen many posts about the subject, but in general the question has been to return the value of a cell if the cell contains text from a list. I have used the following formula for that:

=IF(OR(INDEX(COUNTIF(Cell;"*"&Array&"*");));1;0)

However, what I want is to check if a cell contains text from a list, and if this is TRUE then show the text from the list, not the cell. A small example below.

In column AI have the following values

abc123
def123
ghi123
jkl123

In column B (the list)

abc
def
jkl

Now the first cell (abc123) is in the list, i want to show the text from the list (abc) in the formula cell.

I hope this is clear.

Answer 1

You can use following array formulas:

• If the text you are searching is always placed at the beginning of the string

  {=INDEX($B$1:$B$3;MATCH(1;SEARCH(TRANSPOSE($B$1:$B$3);A1);0);0)}

• or if the text you are searching is placed anywhere

  {=INDEX($B$1:$B$3;MATCH(1;--(SEARCH(TRANSPOSE($B$1:$B$3);A1)>0);0);0)}

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