LOOKUP for each comma delimited item

FlashDota

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Office Version
  1. 2021
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  1. Windows
I want to achieve the following results, How can I do this without VBA, only formulas?





Output:
ActorMovieResult ActorDesired Result Movies
Actor 1, Actor 2, Actor 3OppenheimerActor 1Oppenheimer, Barbie
Actor 1BarbieActor 2Oppenheimer, Spiderman
Actor 2SpidermanActor 3Oppenheimer
 

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I noticed you have 2021 Excel version. By chance have you upgraded to 365? Here is a solution using newer Excel functions assuming your values are in A2:B4...

Excel Formula:
=LET(
actors,A2:A4,
movies,B2:B4,
a, LET(allActorsMovies,LET(finalVal,IFNA(TOCOL(TEXTSPLIT(CONCAT(actors&"-"),", ","-")&"_"&movies),""),FILTER(finalVal,finalVal<>"")),CHOOSE({1,2},TEXTBEFORE(allActorsMovies,"_"),TEXTAFTER(allActorsMovies,"_"))),
b, CHOOSECOLS(a,1),
c, UNIQUE(b),
d, MAP(c, LAMBDA(x, TEXTJOIN(", ",,FILTER(CHOOSECOLS(a, 2),b=x)))),
e, HSTACK(c, d),
e
)
 
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I noticed you have 2021 Excel version. By chance have you upgraded to 365? Here is a solution using newer Excel functions assuming your values are in A2:B4...

Excel Formula:
=LET(
actors,A2:A4,
movies,B2:B4,
a, LET(allActorsMovies,LET(finalVal,IFNA(TOCOL(TEXTSPLIT(CONCAT(actors&"-"),", ","-")&"_"&movies),""),FILTER(finalVal,finalVal<>"")),CHOOSE({1,2},TEXTBEFORE(allActorsMovies,"_"),TEXTAFTER(allActorsMovies,"_"))),
b, CHOOSECOLS(a,1),
c, UNIQUE(b),
d, MAP(c, LAMBDA(x, TEXTJOIN(", ",,FILTER(CHOOSECOLS(a, 2),b=x)))),
e, HSTACK(c, d),
e
)
Thanks for the answer. Nope, still Office 2021. This is returning a #NAME? error
 
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