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Excel String question
How do I insert a character into a string at a specified position.
ie; 19120725 needs to be 1912/07/25.... Thanks, |
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=LEFT(A2,4)&"/"&MID(A2,5,2)&"/"&RIGHT(A2,2) or
=TEXT(A2,"0000\/00\/00") -- David Biddulph "Practiceguys" wrote in message ... How do I insert a character into a string at a specified position. ie; 19120725 needs to be 1912/07/25.... Thanks, |
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You would need a combination of LEFT, MID and RIGHT functions to do
this. If your data was in A1, try this: =LEFT(A1,4)&"/"&MID(A1,5,2)&"/"&RIGHT(A1,2) HTH, JP On Jan 8, 3:17*pm, Practiceguys wrote: How do I insert a character into a string at a specified position. ie; 19120725 * *needs to be 1912/07/25.... Thanks, |
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One way.........
=LEFT(A1,4)&"/"&MID(A1,5,2)&"/"&RIGHT(A1,2) Vaya con Dios, Chuck, CABGx3 "Practiceguys" wrote: How do I insert a character into a string at a specified position. ie; 19120725 needs to be 1912/07/25.... Thanks, |
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I'd convert the value to a real date and then format that cell the way I want.
Then I could use that real date in other calculations. =--(TEXT(A1,"0000\/00\/00")) (and with a custom format of yyyy/mm/dd) Practiceguys wrote: How do I insert a character into a string at a specified position. ie; 19120725 needs to be 1912/07/25.... Thanks, -- Dave Peterson |
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