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  • October 23, 2014 at 7:52 am

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    pnr8uk (10/23/2014)

    ...in the input table I have a postcode BETWEEN two values eg: CV1 and CV10 I want to get a third value from the look up table. ...

    There won't be many rows between 'CV1' and 'CV10'. Try 'CV01' and 'CV10'. If you're only working with UK postcodes, the extra coding isn't much.

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