Try this:

=LEFT(SUBSTITUTE(A10,".",""),9)

Is that something you can work with?
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Regards,

Ron (XL2003, Win XP)
Microsoft MVP (Excel)

"Iguss" wrote in message
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Good Morning,

How Can I combine these two?

=substitute(a1,".","") and =left(a1,9)

I have a string of numbers and I have a period among those numbers(the
period is not in a fixed place), I would like to remove the period and
always
keep first left nine digits.

Lets say 42.254420115600000000, 422542011

Thank you for your help