The three dashes appear in the data but not the quotes.
For integers, I would get 4.00
There are several hundreds different text items.

I think what you are suggesting is to change the text items to something
that will be uniform and easy to parse, then after the parse, change it back
to what it originally was ? That is really thinking outside the box!
Thanks, I'll try it.
I guess once I get the table set up it should be okay going forward since
the text items rarely change.

Let me know if you have any other ideas on this.
Thanks again.





"Pete_UK" wrote:

Do you actually get "---" in the data?

It looks as if for every "proper" number you have a decimal point.
What happens if one of the numbers is an integer? Do you get 4.00 or
4 ?

How many different text items do you get? If you only have a limited
number (as I suspect), then you could set up a table like this:

iShares S&P 500 Index IVV ABC
iShares S&P Global 100 Index IOO ABD
iShares MSCI EAFE Index EFA ABE
iShares Lehman Aggregate Bond AGG ABF
and so on ...

and then you could use Find & Replace within a macro (or SUBSTITUTE in
a formula) to change your text values to some three letter code plus a
space, and then do Data | Text-to-columns on what remains, using
<space as the delimiter.

Then you could convert the 3-letter codes back to text again using
INDEX/MATCH.

Hope this helps.

Pete


On Feb 1, 5:36 pm, ORLANDO V
wrote:
Any ideas on how to do a text to columns on sample data below? The only
thing somewhat static is the fact that each row has seven numbers starting
from the right working left. (where "---" equals blank or zero.)
I appreciate any help given?

iShares S&P 500 Index IVV (6.27) (10.86) (6.27) (2.70) 7.07 11.78 ---
iShares S&P Global 100 Index IOO (8.68) (12.15) (8.68) 0.51 9.03 13.47 ---
iShares MSCI EAFE Index EFA (7.85) (13.82) (7.85) (0.05) 13.78 20.22 ---
iShares Lehman Aggregate Bond AGG 2.31 4.15 2.31 9.59 4.88 --- ---