If Then Loop with Search in Excel

Question

I am currently doing a "if then" loop in excel with following logic.

Value to Check

1. S9(7) C3
2. S9(11)V9(2) C3
3. X(3)

Logic I have used

=IF(ISNUMBER(SEARCH("S9",D1,1)),CONCATENATE("s370fpd",5,".","0"),CONCATENATE("$ebcdic",5,"."))

Now problem here is that S9 maybe of two types. In the first one i.e. S9(7) C3 it works fine but for second one i.e. S9(11)V9(2) C3 I have to CONCATENATE "s370fpd" with value inside bracket of V9 i.e. 2 in this case. So it will become "s370fpd5.2".

Since the value inside bracket is dynamic hence the logic has to search inside it. I am not sure how it will check and then append it.

Answer 1

I'm not sure what you're trying to do exactly, but keeping as much as what you have right now as possible, I would use this:

=IF(ISNUMBER(SEARCH("S9",D1,1)),CONCATENATE("s370fpd",5,".",IFERROR(MID(D1,SEARCH("V9",D1)+3,SEARCH(")",D1,SEARCH("V9",D1))-SEARCH("V9",D1)-3),"0")),CONCATENATE("$ebcdic",5,"."))

I substituted "0" with

IFERROR(MID(D1,SEARCH("V9",D1)+3,SEARCH(")",D1,SEARCH("V9",D1))-SEARCH("V9",D1)-3),"0")

which is what gets what's between brackets after V9.

It also appears to me that you can turn CONCATENATE("$ebcdic",5,".") into "$ebcdic5." directly and CONCATENATE("s370fpd",5,"." into CONCATENATE("s370fpd5.", and/or use & to make things a little shorter, but that's only subject to what you've put in your question:

=IF(ISNUMBER(SEARCH("S9",D1,1)),"s370fpd5."&IFERROR(MID(D1,SEARCH("V9",D1)+3,SEARCH(")",D1,SEARCH("V9",D1))-SEARCH("V9",D1)-3),"0"),"$ebcdic5.")