Finding and extracting text in a cell, splitting into smaller chun
Hi all,
I've tried to do this with a combination of search and right/left, but end up with a 'too many arguments' problem once I try to build in error checks etc. What I'm trying to do is take the contents of a cell and split it into component parts within the same sheet... I have something like 1234;5678;9999;0000 and I want to get cells containing 1234, 5678, 9999 & 0000 seperated. The trouble is the amount of data can vary, and I need to account for situations with between zero ";" characters up to six of them. Any ideas folks? Thanks, Marc |
Finding and extracting text in a cell, splitting into smaller chun
Hi,
Text to colums will do that with the delimiter set as ; Mike "Marc T" wrote: Hi all, I've tried to do this with a combination of search and right/left, but end up with a 'too many arguments' problem once I try to build in error checks etc. What I'm trying to do is take the contents of a cell and split it into component parts within the same sheet... I have something like 1234;5678;9999;0000 and I want to get cells containing 1234, 5678, 9999 & 0000 seperated. The trouble is the amount of data can vary, and I need to account for situations with between zero ";" characters up to six of them. Any ideas folks? Thanks, Marc |
Finding and extracting text in a cell, splitting into smaller
Hi Mike,
what I'm needing is a function equivalent sadly. Here's a little background: I have a list of invoices and a list of purchase orders within a workbook populated directly from a database using MS Query. The invoice list should have a single purchase order number for each entry, but in some cases they have multiple numbers joined by the semi-colon. I'm needing to have a function on the invoices data sheet that can identify these numbers and check if they exist in the purchase orders sheet. I can do the checking part of the function, but splitting out the contents in order to do the checking is stumping me. Marc "Mike H" wrote: Hi, Text to colums will do that with the delimiter set as ; Mike "Marc T" wrote: Hi all, I've tried to do this with a combination of search and right/left, but end up with a 'too many arguments' problem once I try to build in error checks etc. What I'm trying to do is take the contents of a cell and split it into component parts within the same sheet... I have something like 1234;5678;9999;0000 and I want to get cells containing 1234, 5678, 9999 & 0000 seperated. The trouble is the amount of data can vary, and I need to account for situations with between zero ";" characters up to six of them. Any ideas folks? Thanks, Marc |
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