Comments on: Using Regex Functions in Excel

By: Chad

Chad — Tue, 19 May 2009 13:17:40 +0000

This is excellent. Thanks!

Alo — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 23:50:47 +0000

Of course, you could also have just used the =search() function.

for your example, you’d find =search(“a”, B2, 1) and if it existed, it would list where it was in the cell, else return an error.

=if(iserror(search(“a”, B2, 1)),”Does not Exist”,search(“a”, B2, 1))

Would even tell you it doesn’t exist in that cell if you wanted.

Bryan — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 20:02:51 +0000

I’m not sure how you would do it, but wouldn’t M() be better if it returned a boolean? Then you could do:

=IF( M( A1, ‘b’ ), “Matches ‘b’”, “Doesn’t match ‘b’” )

Which doesn’t make your example any better, but would allow enhancements in the future.