I have this (insanely) long formula I need to run in Google Sheets, and I came across the limit error:
There was a problem
Your input contains more than the maximum of 50000 characters in a single cell.
Is there a workaround for this?
my formula is:
=ARRAYFORMULA(SPLIT(QUERY({B!A1:A100; ........ ; CA!DZ1:DZ100},
"select * where Col1 is not null order by Col1 asc", 0), " "))
full formula is: pastebin.com/raw/ZCkZahpw
apologies for Pastebin... I got a few errors here too:
note 1: due to fact that it's a long formula, the output from it should be of size ~100 rows × 3 columns
note 2: so far I managed to bypass JOIN
/TEXTJOIN
for 50000+ characters even 500000 limits for total cells
I managed to enter up to 323461 characters as a formula! by using CTRL
+ H
where I replaced simple =SUM(1)
formula with my huge formula from this answer: https://webapps.stackexchange.com/a/131019/186471
after some research, it looks like there isn't any workaround to pull this of.
recommended savings that were suggested ( shortening: A!A:A
, dropping: select *
, asc
, shortening: "where Col1!=''order by Col1"
) reduced it a bit and rest was split into two formulas in VR {}
array solution.