[SOLVED] Excel – How to lookup multiple values in comma separated range

Issue

I have this comma separated values in column A in and corresponding values in column B.

I want to lookup values of column E and return the values in column F where duplicate values return the next corresponding value of the same match.

excel lookup

I have tried this formulae but did not get the desired results

    =INDEX($B$2:$B$13, SMALL(IF("*"&E2&"*"=$A$2:$A$13, 
ROW($A$2:$A$16116)-MIN(ROW($A$2:$A$13))+1, 0), 
COUNTIF(E2:$E$2, E2)))

Please anyone here to help me?

Solution

Is this what you are looking for, there may be a much more elegant & eloquent way to solve however even this works as well,

Formula used in cell E2

    =IFERROR(INDEX($B$2:$B$13,AGGREGATE(15,6,
(ROW($B$2:$B$13)-1)/ISNUMBER(SEARCH(", "&D2&", ",", "&$A$2:$A$13&", ")),
COUNTIF($D$2:D2,D2))),"")

FORMULA_SOLUTION

Answered By – Mayukh Bhattacharya

Answer Checked By – David Marino (BugsFixing Volunteer)

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