Extracting text separated by | from string?
 

I need to extract text that looks like "|Acc - Lease, FAS 5, legal,
contingency & commit issues|Acc - Depreciation, depletion or amortization
issues|Acc - Lease, leasehold & FAS 13 (98) (subcategory) issues|" without
the quotes and this is the text from one cell. Another cell in the same
column looks like "|Acc - Financial derivatives/hedging (FAS 133) acctg
issues|Acc - Income statemt classification, margin and EPS issues|".
As you can see, the cells have varying amounts of separated text - i.e. the
first example has 3 and the second example has 2. I would like to be able to
extract the text that is contained between each | into a list.
I have access to all versions of excel. Any help would be so wonderfully
appreciated. I can usually figure these functions out on my own, but this one
has me stumped.

Extracting text separated by | from string?
 

On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 19:38:00 -0800, JJFad
wrote:

I need to extract text that looks like "|Acc - Lease, FAS 5, legal,
contingency & commit issues|Acc - Depreciation, depletion or amortization
issues|Acc - Lease, leasehold & FAS 13 (98) (subcategory) issues|" without
the quotes and this is the text from one cell. Another cell in the same
column looks like "|Acc - Financial derivatives/hedging (FAS 133) acctg
issues|Acc - Income statemt classification, margin and EPS issues|".
As you can see, the cells have varying amounts of separated text - i.e. the
first example has 3 and the second example has 2. I would like to be able to
extract the text that is contained between each | into a list.
I have access to all versions of excel. Any help would be so wonderfully
appreciated. I can usually figure these functions out on my own, but this one
has me stumped.

You could try Data/Text-to-columns Delimited with "|" set as the delimiter (in
the Other box).
--ron

Extracting text separated by | from string?
 

Good thinking! That would work.

"Ron Rosenfeld" wrote:

On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 19:38:00 -0800, JJFad
wrote:

I need to extract text that looks like "|Acc - Lease, FAS 5, legal,
contingency & commit issues|Acc - Depreciation, depletion or amortization
issues|Acc - Lease, leasehold & FAS 13 (98) (subcategory) issues|" without
the quotes and this is the text from one cell. Another cell in the same
column looks like "|Acc - Financial derivatives/hedging (FAS 133) acctg
issues|Acc - Income statemt classification, margin and EPS issues|".
As you can see, the cells have varying amounts of separated text - i.e. the
first example has 3 and the second example has 2. I would like to be able to
extract the text that is contained between each | into a list.
I have access to all versions of excel. Any help would be so wonderfully
appreciated. I can usually figure these functions out on my own, but this one
has me stumped.

You could try Data/Text-to-columns Delimited with "|" set as the delimiter (in
the Other box).
--ron

Extracting text separated by | from string?
 

On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 20:27:05 -0800, JJFad
wrote:

Good thinking! That would work.

Post back if you continue to have a problem.
--ron