On 2/9/2021 8:44 AM, john taiariol wrote:
Hello, I would like to extract the X-coordinate from a string of NC
programming code for a CNC machine. A typical line of code might look
like this:

(M72) G0G54X202.819Z54.5 #590=2(RECOVER_FACE TURN)
G1X167.751F#101M26 G0Z61.398 X163.682 G1 X 153.873 Z 62 X147.873
G0X162.375Z62.394

My preference would be a formula. I would like the adjacent cell to
contain only the value for "X" ie. in the first line
"G0G54X202.819Z54.5", the X-coord is 202.819. Please note sometimes the
text may have a space after the X or after the coordinate. It is not
consistent. I have tried "find" and "mid" with limited success. I was
wondering if it's possible to analyze each character in the string after
the "X" and verify if it's a number or a period. Thank you in advance
for any help.

That's a job for regular expressions. Alas, I'm not a guru in writing
them...

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