Questions:
In excel if I have the following
=match(“abc”,A:A,0)
if it errors then it throws some thing like
#value
so i tide this up by saying
=iserror((match(“abc”,A:A,0),”Not found”,match(“abc”,A:A,0) )
but this seems messy code.. running the same formula twice, can this be formated better to give the same result?
Cheers
How to&Answers:
Which version of Excel are you using? In Excel 2007 or later versions you can use IFERROR function to avoid repetition
=IFERROR(MATCH("abc",A:A,0),"Not found")
or in earlier versions you could employ COUNTIF
=IF(COUNTIF(A:A,"abc"),MATCH("abc",A:A,0),"Not found")
Answer：
I’m not aware of a built-in way to do this, but you could write your own VBA function:
Function GracefulError(varValue As Variant, strMessage As String) As Variant
If IsError(varValue) Then
GracefulError = strMessage
Else
GracefulError = varValue
End If
End Function
Usage:
=GracefulError(match("abc",A:A,0), "Not found")
Tags: string, stringexcel
