Is there a Within Formula somewhere? - function

I am trying to determine if there is a specific string of data in a cell. so if have a cell that says 1 2 3 4 5 6. Using the Space as a delimiter. is there a way for me to query the 4 out of it? and get a return of the 4?
I have tried using search and find but thats are just giving me the len position within the cell.

So, use find(), which you say you did but did not show how...
What about:
=if(iferror(find(A1,B1,1),0)>0,A1,"Not found")

I've setup my sheet like so:
The formula works like so:
mid(A2, //grab a substring from the middle of A2
SEARCH("4",A2) //find the value "4" inside A2
,1) //make MID grab exactly one character (length of string "4"
With some jimmying, you can generalize this however you want.

try:
=REGEXEXTRACT(A1&""; "\b4")

Another solution for Google Sheets:
=if(iserror(MATCH(A1,SPLIT(B1," "),0)),"",A1)
(aka: look for A1 in B1)
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How can I make a formula in Google Spreadsheet to return a value if a cell contains a text in a list

I'm currently interested in building a custom function/formula in Google Spreadsheet where the function will intake a cell and return a value that is related to a specific text in a list.
As you can see in the screenshot, which is a demo that I drafted to give a better idea of what I'm trying to accomplish, column A contains a list of items that has random texts. In the texts, there are some keywords that I would like to identify into different categories.
Column B is just a demo of how I envision to use my custom function that I want to create. Column C is the expected result that I would get by using the custom function.
Column E is the list of keywords that I would like the custom function to search for in cells and Column F is the category that I would like the custom function to return once it finds the relevant keyword in a text.
Thank you!
I tried searching for this topic, but I only came across how to set up an array formula to achieve what I want to do. If there was any post about this, I would really appreciate if you could just link it in the comment.
Given your scenario, you can try with this formula:
=FILTER(F:F,INDEX(REGEXMATCH(A2,"(?i)"&E:E)),E:E<>"")
If you wish to have it for the whole row:
=BYROW(A2:A,LAMBDA(each,IF(each="","",FILTER(F:F,INDEX(REGEXMATCH(each,"(?i)"&E:E)),E:E<>""))))
If you could have more than one result, you can add JOIN:
=BYROW(A2:A,LAMBDA(each,IF(each="","",JOIN(", ",FILTER(F:F,INDEX(REGEXMATCH(each,"(?i)"&E:E)),E:E<>"")))))

Automatic Replace "0" with blank cell

I have a sheet called "Test". Column B shows dynamic API calls, then I use a macro to copy all cells from Column B to Column C every 1 hour in order to store those prices, however sometimes API call fails, so it shows 0. I want to mass replace all cells containing "0" (match exact case) from all columns of sheet "Test" without changing Column B (which is the column for the API calls so we don't want to change its formula).
How can I do that?
Thank you!
Google sheets doesn't have this function yet but this could do the trick:
Select all cells (Ctrl + A) click Format > Conditional Formatting
Use the dropdown to select Equal To and type 0
Tick the text tickbox and change the text color to white, this will
effectively hide all your zero values.
You can define a format as
0;-0;

How to use cell value instead of number

Im sorry I dont even know how to correctly phrase this question.
The line of code I need to edit is this;
sheet.getRange(targetcell).setValue('=INDEX(QUERY(IMPORTHTML("http://www.futbin.com/consumables/Position%20Change","table",2),"select Col2"),1)');
However instead of row 1, I want to use the value from cell G1. So, something like this;
sheet.getRange(targetcell).setValue('=INDEX(QUERY(IMPORTHTML("http://www.futbin.com/consumables/Position%20Change","table",2),"select Col2"),G1)');
However, this throws an error.
Could anyone advise how I can use the value in G1 instead of it being fixed?
Thank you.
Try .setFormula instead of .setValue ...
sheet.getRange(targetcell).setFormula('=INDEX(QUERY(IMPORTHTML("http://www.futbin.com/consumables/Position%20Change","table",2),"select Col2"),G1)');
If there were a column G from the table that results from that IMPORTHTML function then you would use this:
sheet.getRange(targetcell).setValue('=INDEX(QUERY(IMPORTHTML("http://www.futbin.com/consumables/Position%20Change","table",2),"select Col7"),1)');
Because G is column 7
However, there is only 3 columns from that IMPORTHTML. You can check this by entering the formular into a Google Sheet:
=IMPORTHTML("http://www.futbin.com/consumables/Position%20Change","table",2)
I suggest playing around with your formula in SHeets and once you've got what you want, go back into AppsScript.

Do I need a script or a formula?

I am trying to have the formula look in Column A for not empty cells. (That part of the formula works fine.) Then return the name from Column B that's in the same row as the not empty cell.
Column A Column B
text/date Kelly
So if B has anything in it, tell me the name Kelly. I 've tried combining formulas, but I'm either not doing it correctly or maybe I need a script?
Here's the part that's working: =IF(A24="","don't meet","meet")
Of course, I want it to search the whole column, but I know for sure 24 has the text in the cell with a name so I was just playing around that line.
Answer is based on the description and document you provided and should give you something to work with.
This formula simple checks the entire Column A and returns values from the corresponding row from Col B if the Cell from the Col A row is empty/blank.
=ARRAYFORMULA((IF(A1:A<>"",B1:B,"")))
Here are example screenshots of your example data + end result
Though I'm not entirely sure what you'd like to happen if A has values on them. This formula retains A if it has content but you could always change the (A2:A="",B2:B,A2:A) part of the formula if you want something else to happen if A is not empty.
Give this a try, I put it in your sheet in the green area.
=ARRAYFORMULA(IF(A1:A15 = "", "", B1:B15))
Arrayformula applies the IF function to the entire range. So substitute A1:A15 with what ever the whole range is, A1:A600 or A1:A if you want to do the whole column. Make srue the second column has the same values but with B.
You can use filter() to filter your Column B if both column A and column B is not empty.
Formula:
=filter(B1:B,A1:A<>"",B1:B<>"")
Output:

Google Sheets - Combine multiple IF Functions into one cell

I'm trying to produce a SKU in Google Sheets for a product using the values of three variants (Title, Colour and Size)
The product is 'Lightweight trainers' with colour variants of 'Red' and 'Blue', and the sizes range from 5 - 12.
Link to spreadsheet
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1trq0X3MjR-n2THFnT8gYYlwKscnQavCeeZ8L-ifYaHw/edit?usp=sharing
Aim
I'm hoping to have a SKU that displays the product, the colour variant and the shoes size.
Example: LW-1-8 (Lightweight trainer, colour Red, size 8)
Product is Lightweight Trainers with a value of LW.
Colour variant 'Red' with a value of 1 and 'Blue' with a value of 2.
Shoe size variant = number ranging from 5 to 12.
Here's what I have so far, joining the colour and size variants.
=IFS(I2="Red",1,I2="Blue",2)&"-"& IFS(K2="5",5,K2="6",6,K2="7",7,K2="8",8,K2="9",9,K2="10",10,K2="11",11,K2="12",12)
However, I'm getting stuck in joining the data in column B with this function.
Any help with combining this data from multiple cells into one would be greatly appreciated.
TL;DR
=ARRAYFORMULA(IF(B2:B<>"", IFS(B2:B="Lightweight Trainers", "LW")&"-"&IFS(I2:I="Blue", 1, I2:I="Red", 2)&"-"&K2:K,))
Answer
What you want is basically:
<title>-<color number>-<shoe size>
To convert this to a function we can split it into each part and take it step by step:
Step 1: Title
For the first part -the title- we need to match the value with the shorthand. A simple list in an IFS is enough.
IFS(B2="Lightweight Trainers", "LW")
Obviously for now it only has a single value (Lightweight Trainers) but you could add more:
IFS(B2="Lightweight Trainers", "LW", B2="Heavyweight Trainers", "HW")
Step 2: color number
Similar to the previous step, it’s a mapping using ifs:
IFS(I2="Blue", "-1", I2="Red", "-2")
The dash is added so when adding everything it will only have it if
Step 3: shoe size
In this case we can simply get the value:
K2
Step 4: Adding everything together
We only need to add it with the dashes in between:
=IFS(B2="Lightweight Trainers", "LW")&"-"&IFS(I2="Blue", 1, I2="Red", 2)&"-"&K2
Step 5: Extending for the entire column automatically
We will use ARRAYFORMULA to add a single formula to the first cell and get it automatically extended to the entire column. We first add it to the formula we already have, and then extend the ranges to the entire column:
=ARRAYFORMULA(IFS(B2:B="Lightweight Trainers", "LW")&"-"&IFS(I2:I="Blue", 1, I2:I="Red", 2)&"-"&K2:K)
Remember to remove all the values in the column so array formula doesn’t override them (it would generate an error).
As you can see the formula generates errors for the rows that have no values. A good way of handling this case is to filter the rows without a title. In a single row would be:
=IF(B2<>"", [the entire formula],)
Notice the last comma.
So putting everything together and extending its range to the column, is:
=ARRAYFORMULA(IF(B2:B<>"", IFS(B2:B="Lightweight Trainers", "LW")&"-"&IFS(I2:I="Blue", 1, I2:I="Red", 2)&"-"&K2:K,))
Adding this to N2 should work.
Final notes
It seems that you use 150 when the size it’s not a whole number. If you want to keep that functionality you may use:
IF(K2-int(K2)=0, K2, 150)
On the last component and expand it the same way.
You may also want to prevent having two dashes when a value is missing (LW-5 instead of LW--5). To do so, I’d recommend adding it to each component instead of the formula that adds them together.
References
IFS (Docs Editors Help)
IF (Docs Editors Help)
ARRAYFORMULA (Docs Editors Help)
try in N2:
=IFS(I2="Red",1,I2="Blue",2)&"-"&
IFS(K2=5,5,K2=6,6,K2=7,7,K2=8,8,K2=9,9,K2=10,10,K2=11,11,K2=12,12)
or use:
=IF(I2="red", 1, IF(I2="blue", 2, )&IF((K5>=5)*(K5<=12), "-"&K5, )