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Separating with \ instead of ; when using arrays for multiple sumifs criteria


I tried to write a formula like this:

=SUM(SUMIFS(Table!$J:$J;Table!$G:$G;{"K12*";"K22*"};Table!$H:$H;{"K01";"K03";"K04";"K05";"K06";"K07";"K09";"K10";"K15"}))/1000

but it didn't work and then I found a solution to write \ instead of ; in one array when separating criteria

=SUM(SUMIFS(Table!$J:$J;Table!$G:$G;{"K12*"\"K22*"};Table!$H:$H;{"K01";"K03";"K04";"K05";"K06";"K07";"K09";"K10";"K15"}))/1000

and this worked.

Can someone please explain to me why exactly does it work like this? I would like to understand how things work instead of just blindly copying a formula.


Solution

  • Found this explaination to this behaviour:

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