Question

I have a excel sheet with 7 fields.

I want to remove/filter all the records that donot have string /inf/ in the 5th field.

How can I acheieve this?

Input

F1     F2    F3   F4     F5    F6    F7
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1      2      3   4    A/inf/B  5     6
1      2      3   4     5       6     7
1      2      3   4     6       7     8 
5      6      7   8    A/inf/B  9     2

Output

F1     F2    F3   F4     F5    F6    F7
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1      2      3   4    A/inf/B  5     6
5      6      7   8    A/inf/B  9     2

Please help.

Thanks,
Srihari

Answer 1

You could create a column to the right of the data with the formula

=if(iserror(find("/inf/",E2)),1,0)

and then sort the data, and delete the records with that have a value of 1. (I’m assuming that column ‘F5’ corresponds to column E and that you’re starting in row 2, but the formula can easily be changed to work with your data).