Comments on: String manipulation with worksheet formulas – Part 2

By: Dick Kusleika

Dick Kusleika — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 16:56:00 +0000

Rick: Thanks. I assumed they would only want up to the first five letters. Possibly presumptuous, I admit.

By: Rick Rothstein (MVP - Excel)

Rick Rothstein (MVP - Excel) — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 03:12:00 +0000

@Dick,

Your last setup will fail for something like this in A1...

One-Two Three

I believe this single formula will do work instead though...

=LEFT(SUBSTITUTE(IF(FIND("-",A1&"-")

By: Dick Kusleika

Dick Kusleika — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 15:36:00 +0000

With your text in A1, in B1

=SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(A1," ","^^"),"-","^^")

and in C1

=IF(ISNUMBER(FIND("^^",B1)),IF(MID(A1,FIND("^^",B1),1)="-",LEFT(LEFT(A1,FIND("-",A1)-1),5),LEFT(LEFT(A1,FIND(" ",A1)-1),3)&MID(A1,FIND(" ",A1)+1,2)),A1)

will extract the first five letters of the first word if the first and second words are separated by a hyphen and will extract the first three letters of the first word and first two letters of the second if they are separated by a space.

By: Dick Kusleika

Dick Kusleika — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 15:27:00 +0000

This formula will extract the first word defined by a space or a dash

=IF(LEN(A1)=0,"",IF(ISNUMBER(FIND("^^",SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(A1," ","^^"),"-","^^"))),LEFT(SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(A1," ","^^"),"-","^^"),FIND("^^",SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(A1," ","^^"),"-","^^"))-1),A1))

By: KRANTI

KRANTI — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 19:22:00 +0000

adding to above i also need help regarding the following :
1.need to extract first 3 letters of 1st word & 2 letters of 2nd word of the same string if there is space betwenn 2 words
2.if there is dash (-) between two words instead of space then need to extract only 1st 5 letters of the same string

can anybody assist me on this?

By: KRANTI

KRANTI — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 19:16:00 +0000

hi,
the very first formula is workable for my file but only change i want is there is dash(-) in some strings instead of space so can u modify this formula to read it space &/or dash? & revert?

=IF(LEN(A1)=0,"",IF(ISNUMBER(FIND(" ",A1)),LEFT(A1,FIND(" ",A1)-1),A1))

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By: Akhil

Akhil — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 09:52:00 +0000

Hi,

i have two sheets

sheet 1 contains

column-1-list of names
column-2-count

sheet 2 contains

column-1-date
column-2-shift 1
column-2-shift 2
column-3-shift 3
column-4-shift 4

now there might be any number of names in each column in sheet 2
(i.e there will be many people in different shifts whose names are seperated by a delimiter " , ")

i want a user defined sode which must perform the following operation.

if the name of an associate is found in sheet 2 in any shift for that particular date,then the count corresponding to his name should increase by one.

Thanks in advance

By: mrt

mrt — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 20:01:00 +0000

Hi Hans -

Ooo…I like that. Now we’re approaching Obfuscated C Well, maybe not.

I didn’t get the need for Join() until I found that you can’t get at something like Filter(0)

Thanks
Michael (aka mrt)

By: Hans Schraven

Hans Schraven — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 14:03:00 +0000

Michael,

Your remarks led me to the one-liner below:

Function Institute(Phrase As String) As String
Institute=join(filter(split(phrase,", "),IIf(InStr(phrase, "University"), "University", IIf(InStr(phrase, "Institute"), "Institute", ""))),"")
End Function