
4 December 2016
The Like operator allows you to match a string to a pattern in Excel VBA.
This blog describes usage of the VBA Like operator and, as a bonus, mentions how you can use the question mark ? and asterisk * for pattern matching in many Excel functions
The VBA Like operator uses the following patterns:
?(question mark) - Matches any single character.*(asterisk) - Matches zero or more characters.#(number or hash sign) - Any single digit.[abc]- Characters enclosed in brackets allows you to match any single character in the string.[!abc]- The exclamation mark (!) matches any single character not in the string.[A-Z]- The hyphen lets you specify a range of characters.
Full article: Like operator