Surely, the answer is to educate the data inputters to enter the data
properly, otherwise you are chasing a moving target. May times it should be
procedure not process.

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RP
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"R. Choate" wrote in message
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They are all over the place. A stupid data entry person enters everything
randomly. The numbers could be anywhere in the string,
otherwise I would just look for the delimiter. That would be easy. The
only constant is that it is always 10 digits...somewhere in
the string.
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"Toppers" wrote in message
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Richard,
How are the (numeric) strings delimited e.g.
1234,abc,123456?

"R. Choate" wrote:

I need to find and extract a 10 digit number from a string which might
contain more than one numeric string, but there would only
be
one string of that length. I'm going to have to find out how to do this
and then loop through a long list and extract that number
and place it in the first cell to the right (column B). I've been at
this all morning. I'm out of ideas. Surely there is an easy
way
to do this that I'm just not thinking of. Help !

Thanks in advance !

Richard
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RMC,CPA