Lookup between alphanumeric range?

YankeeruinX

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Hello,

Probably being thick here and the obvious answer is alluding me but I need a formula to return a value based on where something is between a range of alphanumeric characters. At a basic level something like the below:

[TABLE="class: grid, width: 500, align: center"]
<tbody>[TR]
[TD]Start Location[/TD]
[TD]End Location[/TD]
[TD]Who[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]A001[/TD]
[TD]A100[/TD]
[TD]MT[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]A101[/TD]
[TD]A200[/TD]
[TD]CH[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]B001[/TD]
[TD]B050[/TD]
[TD]RH[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]B051[/TD]
[TD]B150[/TD]
[TD]AH[/TD]
[/TR]
</tbody>[/TABLE]

So If I put in a location of say A053 it would return MT, B041 would return RH and so on. Been scratching my head over this for a while now and tried googling for an answer but to be honest I'm not even sure what to call this type of lookup.

If anyone could point me in the right direction it would be greatly appreciated.

Kind regards
 

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Hi,

Do you have an example of how the data actually looks? If necessary change the location - I just want to see how your data is laid out :)
 
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I don't at the minute, just got an email through asking for a formula for a table like the above from the powers that be. Have asked him for the actual data so will see if that differs much to what he originally sent through. These are storage locations so there will be thousands of them hence the range between start/end and then see who is responsible for them.
 
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I don't at the minute, just got an email through asking for a formula for a table like the above from the powers that be. Have asked him for the actual data so will see if that differs much to what he originally sent through. These are storage locations so there will be thousands of them hence the range between start/end and then see who is responsible for them.

OK. Well at the moment I'm thinking a massive IF formula - depends how many you have as pickers though. Formula as follows (Assuming you are starting in A1 and your Location data is in E1).
Code:
=IF(E1<=B2,C2,IF(E1<=B3,C3,IF(E1<=B4,C4,IF(E1<=B5,C5,"Other"))))
 
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Try this:

=LOOKUP(2,1/($A$2:$A$5<=G1)/($B$2:$B$5>=G1),$C$2:$C$5)

=LOOKUP(2,1/(Start Location<=G1)/(End Location>=G1),Who)
 
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