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I have the following string in column H and I.
H2="http://"
I2="aaa"
H3="http://"
I3="bbb"
I want to have a auto-generated J column, which results like:
J2="http://aaa"
J3="http://bbb"
So I put the following formula in J1:
= ARRAYFORMULA (IF(ROW(J:J)=1;"formulaTest";CONCATENATE(H:H1, I:I1 ) ))
But the result I got is:
J2="http://http://aaabbb"
J3="http://http://aaabbb"
What is going wrong with my formula?
This is what you are looking for:
=ARRAYFORMULA((IF(ROW(J:J)=1,"formulaTest",H1:H & I1:I)))
CONCATNATE, the complete column range is fed to the ARRAYFORMULA. Using the ampersand, only the single entries are fed, giving you the desired result.
Jan 19, 2014 at 12:01
In Google Sheets, the simplest solution is to just use CONCAT instead of CONCATENATE.
=ARRAYFORMULA(CONCAT(H1:H,I1:I))
CONCAT will return only two values and can be used in this manner for an array formula. You cannot use CONCATENATE because (as mentioned by others) it will return the whole array.
=arrayformula(H1:H & I1:I)
Here is what I use for concating multiple columns with a glue string:
=ARRAYFORMULA(IF(ISBLANK(A2:A) ,, IFERROR(H2:H & "-" & I2:I ,'Attention!')))
the IF(ISBLANK(A2:A) part is added so that ARRAYFORMULA does not perform on empty rows of the sheet.
