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Identifying subtext within text with multiple criteria

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Hi everyone

I have a database with names of chemicals in multiple rows. Approx 80000 But this data set is not clean. 

For eg I have Benzene,  2-Chlorobenzene pure,  2-Chlorobenzene (99%pure), aminobenzene, 2,4-Di Chlorobenzene,3-chlorobenzene and several others. From this list, I want to extract 2-Chlorobenzene both pure and 99% pure for further processing.  However how do I get excel to automate the process to tag these as Chlorobenzene.  I am unable to use vlookup or search options as the names aren't unique. Is there a code to tag them.

Since this is  a monthly activity it is painful to apply filters and manually check in such a database  

Thanks 

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posted by: Calculus (rep: 2) on Thu Apr 6, 2017 at 2:19 pm
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Hi there!

You can try using special wildcard characters like the multiplication sign within a vlookup.

Sample:

=VLOOKUP("*"&"Chlorobenzene"&"*",A1:B10,2,FALSE)

This just requires a lookup table to be created that will output the correct corresponding tag. Replace Chlorobenzene with whatever you want or with a cell reference.

posted by: cappymer1 (rep: 120) on Fri Apr 7, 2017 at 3:17 am
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