Matching similar but not exact text strings in Excel VBA projects

by

I would place the macro in your PERSONAL section, this way the macro is available in all worksheets. Do this by recording a dummy macro and select to store it in Personal Macro workbook. Now you can manually add new macro’s and functions in this personal workbook.

I just tried this one (don’t know the original source) and it works fine.

The formula looks like this: =PERSONAL.XLSB!FuzzyFind(A1,B$1:B$20)

The code is here:

Function FuzzyFind(lookup_value As String, tbl_array As Range) As String
Dim i As Integer, str As String, Value As String
Dim a As Integer, b As Integer, cell As Variant
For Each cell In tbl_array
  str = cell
  For i = 1 To Len(lookup_value)
    If InStr(cell, Mid(lookup_value, i, 1)) > 0 Then
      a = a + 1
      cell = Mid(cell, 1, InStr(cell, Mid(lookup_value, i, 1)) - 1) & Mid(cell, InStr(cell, Mid(lookup_value, i, 1)) + 1, 9999)
    End If
  Next i
  a = a - Len(cell)
  If a > b Then
    b = a
    Value = str
  End If
  a = 0
Next cell
FuzzyFind = Value
End Function

Leave a Comment