**Excel for Dummies – Using Regular Expressions with XLOOKUP**
Excel for Dummies has recently introduced “Regular Expressions.” Another name for this function is regex. These are powerful search patterns used for matching and processing text. According to the developers, Excel presents this aging novelty as “highly advanced search functions,” writes https://xrust.ru/. They are capable of searching for complex strings of characters based on patterns, not just exact matches. Regular expressions allow finding text that corresponds to a certain pattern, such as all words starting with a vowel (e.g., “^[AEIOUaeiou]”) or any number consisting of exactly five digits (e.g., “^\d5$”). These patterns help make searches more flexible and efficient, especially when working with large datasets. Thematic books discuss the XLOOKUP function in detail and describe its arguments. However, regular expressions are so new that they have not yet made it into the printed editions of many books. To use a regular expression with XLOOKUP, you must specify the regular expression pattern in the lookup value argument and set the match type argument to 3. For example, suppose you have an Excel table named Data, and you want to return the total sales for the first vendor whose name contains the word “Fruit.” Below is the formula that will perform the search:
`=XLOOKUP(“\bFruit\b”,Data[Vendor],Data[Total Sales],,3)`.
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