Matching a character

jollyn

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Hi Im new to excel I am trying to search for a character in cell A that matches list in column B and take that cell number to extract info of column C to E.
example:
To be redundant and make sure I make sense, Are any characters in Cell B match string in cell A row 1 Yes R in row 3 I need row 3 CELLC info to go to E.
CELL A CELL B. CELLC. CELL E
1 AAREAA M sdfldjjf R efggfd
2 BBMOBB X fffdjf M sdfldjjf
3 CXYCC R efggfd X fffdjf

Can someone point me in the right direction Ive tried Vlookup, also things like =if(REGEXMATCH(A25,c3),true,false) gives me true but its has be exact position but I would like any character in column B to be search in cell A1,A2... Thank you so much for the help.
 

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Hi, welcome to the forum! Here's one option you can try with XL365.

Book3
ABCDE
1AAREAAMsdfldjjfRefggfd
2BBMOBBXfffdjfMsdfldjjf
3CXYCCRefggfdXfffdjf
4MXRMsdfldjjf
5RXMMsdfldjjf
Sheet1
Cell Formulas
RangeFormula
D1:D5D1=XLOOKUP(TRUE,ISNUMBER(FIND($B$1:$B$3,A1)),$B$1:$B$3,"")
E1:E5E1=XLOOKUP(TRUE,ISNUMBER(FIND($B$1:$B$3,A1)),$C$1:$C$3,"")
 
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Hi, welcome to the forum! Here's one option you can try with XL365.

Book3
ABCDE
1AAREAAMsdfldjjfRefggfd
2BBMOBBXfffdjfMsdfldjjf
3CXYCCRefggfdXfffdjf
4MXRMsdfldjjf
5RXMMsdfldjjf
Sheet1
Cell Formulas
RangeFormula
D1:D5D1=XLOOKUP(TRUE,ISNUMBER(FIND($B$1:$B$3,A1)),$B$1:$B$3,"")
E1:E5E1=XLOOKUP(TRUE,ISNUMBER(FIND($B$1:$B$3,A1)),$C$1:$C$3,"")
Thank you Guru FormR! Big Bow of Gratitude!
 
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