the number of entries are unknown.

I wouldn't even mess around trying to get a formula to work on this.

I would:

EditReplace
Find what: ;
Replace with: nothing, leave this empty
Replace All

Make sure lots of columns to the right are empty...

DataText to Columns
DelimitedSpaceFinish

Then:

=SUM(A1:J1)

Someone might be able to come up with a UDF that'll work.


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Biff
Microsoft Excel MVP


"kookie" wrote in message
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I need to summ the numeris value of a cell string. The input of the cell
will
be alphanumeric and semicolon delimited.

Example:
A1 = GBR 4; FRA 5; USA 11
result B1 = 20 (4+5+11)

I have come up with a few working examples but I would like to do it in
less
steps and cells.

in b1 now I have
=VALUE(IF(ISERROR(RIGHT(LEFT(A1&";",(FIND(CHAR(1), SUBSTITUTE(A1&";",";",CHAR(1),1))-1)),1)),0,RIGHT(LEFT(A1&";",(FIND(CHAR(1),SUBSTITU TE(A1&";",";",CHAR(1),1))-1)),1)))

I added ";" because i am using that for my reference and going 2 digits
left. numbers will not be larger than 99 and the text will be 3 digits
with
space. the number of entries are unknown.

so in c1 I added this formula

=VALUE(IF(ISERROR(RIGHT(LEFT(A1&";",(FIND(CHAR(1), SUBSTITUTE(A1&";",";",CHAR(1),2))-1)),2)),0,RIGHT(LEFT(A1&";",(FIND(CHAR(1),SUBSTITU TE(A1&";",";",CHAR(1),2))-1)),2)))

I continue this through the columns 15 more times. Then I sum the results
in
another column.

I when I tried to put all the formulas in the SUM() in a cell received an
error nesting exceeded. I have to do the if because for the iserror when
there is no number.
A1 may have 3 entries and B1 may have 6.

Is there a way, formula, or vb that can be used to sum the numbers os a
cell
string array?