Thank you. I believe the binary search is faster as it does not check the entire array, however the array must be sorted in order or results are inaccurate.
Binary search is useful to speed up your search in large data sets. It works by repeatedly dividing in half the portion of the list that could contain the item, until you've narrowed down the possible locations to just one. Sorting your lookup column is mandatory.
A very good instruction video, though as I see it, only in your first example (the club's position), XMATCH is necessary, in the other two examples XLOOKUP is easier than the combination of INDEX and XMATCH. Can you tell me why I would use XMATCH here or do you have another video in which you show examples of the benefits of XMATCH? Thanks!
Yes, XMATCH can be used with VLOOKUP or HLOOKUP if you like. VLOOKUP is already designed to search vertically, but XMATCH could be used in the column index number argument for a dynamic column number.
Another wonderful and very useful video. 👏 🌟 🌟 Thanks Alan.. 🌟 🌟 👏
Thank you very much Salim.
Thanks for this demo Alan
My pleasure, John.
Hi Alan.. thanks for the intro to XMATCH. Your videos are always informative and entertaining. Thanks for sharing. Thumbs up!
My pleasure Wayne.
Great Alan, can you explain about forth argument>>my mean is binary search. What is its use?
Thank you. I believe the binary search is faster as it does not check the entire array, however the array must be sorted in order or results are inaccurate.
Binary search is useful to speed up your search in large data sets. It works by repeatedly dividing in half the portion of the list that could contain the item, until you've narrowed down the possible locations to just one. Sorting your lookup column is mandatory.
A very good instruction video, though as I see it, only in your first example (the club's position), XMATCH is necessary, in the other two examples XLOOKUP is easier than the combination of INDEX and XMATCH. Can you tell me why I would use XMATCH here or do you have another video in which you show examples of the benefits of XMATCH? Thanks!
Hi, in the last example how can we makes it show all the outcome (currently I have 3 outcomes needed to be display)
xmatch is a better version of match function, cool
Oh yes!!
Vlookup..?
Yes, XMATCH can be used with VLOOKUP or HLOOKUP if you like.
VLOOKUP is already designed to search vertically, but XMATCH could be used in the column index number argument for a dynamic column number.