Parsing a alpha character out of a cell
 

I have a spreadsheet containing weather data - the cells containing
windspeed and wind direction contain a data flag in addition to the
numeric value, example 90S for wind direction and 2.1S for wind speed.
I wish to get rid of the alpha character so I can work with the numeric
values.

How do I parse each cell to remove the alpha character(s)?


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Is it always one character?

Is the one character always at the right (end) of the entry?


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Yes, it is always a single alpha character (Caps), and always appended
to the numeric value as 99X.


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=left(a1,len(a1)-1)


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Lilllabeth,

Thanks, that works great! Now I must read up on that function.


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Great! Read up on both functions - Left and Len. Look at the Right
function, too.


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On Sat, 15 Oct 2005 10:53:43 -0500, Lram
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I have a spreadsheet containing weather data - the cells containing
windspeed and wind direction contain a data flag in addition to the
numeric value, example 90S for wind direction and 2.1S for wind speed.
I wish to get rid of the alpha character so I can work with the numeric
values.

How do I parse each cell to remove the alpha character(s)?

If the data flag is always there, and always a single character, then:

=--LEFT(A1, LEN(A1)-1)


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Parsing a alpha character out of a cell
 

If the values need to be numeric, you may want to do this to convert back to
numbers.

=LEFT(A1,LEN(A1)-1)*1

HTH
Regards,
Howard

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I have a spreadsheet containing weather data - the cells containing
windspeed and wind direction contain a data flag in addition to the
numeric value, example 90S for wind direction and 2.1S for wind speed.
I wish to get rid of the alpha character so I can work with the numeric
values.

How do I parse each cell to remove the alpha character(s)?


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