vlookup return array (formula only, no code please)

Question

I have a table like so:

A   B   C   D
1   3   2   1
2   3   2   1
3   0   2   2

I want to vlookup the first column so that it returns the 3 columns after.

For example if I look up 2, i want the return to be 3 2 1.

i need it in one formula because it will go into a sumproduct expression.

Does not have to be a vlookup. I just need something that will return me an array though some type of indexing or lookup.

Answer 1

One of the ways to achieve this is query. So for the data given by you (A, B, C are column), you can use the following formula to get all three columns for the lookup value 2

=QUERY($A$1:$D$3,"select B,C,D where A = 2")

Then you can apply any aggregate function on top of this too. For eg:

=sum(QUERY($A$1:$D$3,"select B,C,D where A = 1"))

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