[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 143116] vlookup does not return results if string includes special characters

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=143116

--- Comment #3 from Uwe Auer <uwe at franke-auer.de> ---
The sample documents have option "Tools -> Option -> LibreOffice Calc ->
Calculate -> Enable regular expression in formulas" set. Therefore "*"
(asterisk) has ha special meaning in VLOOKUP's SearchCriterion. Hence you would
need, according to documentation [1], use =VLOOKUP("\Q" & C5 & "\E";tLook;2;0),
to disable this setting for the current call. 

Alternative: Deactivate option "Tools -> Option -> LibreOffice Calc ->
Calculate -> Enable regular expression in formulas" 

[1] LibreOffice Help - VLOOKUP
https://help.libreoffice.org/latest/en-US/text/scalc/01/04060109.html?DbPAR=CALC#bm_id3153152

>From my perspective this is not a bug.

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