MATCH problem

[Smallweed]

Hi - can anyone tell me why I get #NA when I try to match a cell with contents:
AWDAXJ$(RI#S)~£
with another cell with exactly the same entry?
And is there a workaround?
Thanks

 

[Luke M]

The tilde is causing the problem. I'm guessing because its a type of wildcard
character.

Possible workarounds: Depending on what your doing, maybe using FIND,
LOOKUP, or VLOOKUP?

 

[xlm]

would you post your formula?


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[Chip Pearson]

The tilde ~ character is a special control character. To use it
literally, use two. For example,

=MATCH("AWDAXJ$(RI#S)~~£",G1:G10,0)

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