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eg. "mick jagger bush" "muhammad ali clay" "ayesha bin batool"
suppose that these r the names and i want formula that would be generic to all, such that it gets "jagger" "ali" and "bin" |
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One way:
=TRIM(MID(LEFT(A1, FIND("$", SUBSTITUTE(A1, "_", "$", 2))), FIND("_", A1), 32767)) where _ represents a space character to prevent unfortunate linewrap. In article , "zomex" wrote: eg. "mick jagger bush" "muhammad ali clay" "ayesha bin batool" suppose that these r the names and i want formula that would be generic to all, such that it gets "jagger" "ali" and "bin" |
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Hi Zomex
your teacher is obviously in a mean mood today :) for this one - one answer involves a combination of MID and SEARCH functions the way to approach it is - locate the first space using the SEARCH function - locate the second space using the SEARCH function (you'll have to nest the first formula in here again to get your starting point), then subtract the first formula again to calculate the number of chatacters between the two spaces. then nest these two formulas in the MID function. Using the above method will give you leading and trailing spaces, these can easily be edited out by modifying the formula (once you get that far). Give it a go and if you'ld like more help, just post back. Cheers JulieD julied at hctsReMoVeThIs dot net dot au "zomex" wrote: eg. "mick jagger bush" "muhammad ali clay" "ayesha bin batool" suppose that these r the names and i want formula that would be generic to all, such that it gets "jagger" "ali" and "bin" |
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thanks for the wonderful reply.... i couldnt get the middle name though the
formula that i was using sure did get me the last name and the3 formula is =MID(E4,FIND(" ",E4,FIND(" ",E4)+1),LEN(E4)) ...the other formula did work, but it shows the result like "0UsMan" and for even it shows "1UmEr"...how can i remove this "0" abd "1"... :) "JulieD" wrote: Hi Zomex your teacher is obviously in a mean mood today :) for this one - one answer involves a combination of MID and SEARCH functions the way to approach it is - locate the first space using the SEARCH function - locate the second space using the SEARCH function (you'll have to nest the first formula in here again to get your starting point), then subtract the first formula again to calculate the number of chatacters between the two spaces. then nest these two formulas in the MID function. Using the above method will give you leading and trailing spaces, these can easily be edited out by modifying the formula (once you get that far). Give it a go and if you'ld like more help, just post back. Cheers JulieD julied at hctsReMoVeThIs dot net dot au "zomex" wrote: eg. "mick jagger bush" "muhammad ali clay" "ayesha bin batool" suppose that these r the names and i want formula that would be generic to all, such that it gets "jagger" "ali" and "bin" |
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Maybe
=MID(E4,FIND(" ",E4,FIND(" ",E4)+1)+1,LEN(E4)) -- HTH Bob Phillips (remove nothere from email address if mailing direct) "zomex" wrote in message ... thanks for the wonderful reply.... i couldnt get the middle name though the formula that i was using sure did get me the last name and the3 formula is =MID(E4,FIND(" ",E4,FIND(" ",E4)+1),LEN(E4)) ...the other formula did work, but it shows the result like "0UsMan" and for even it shows "1UmEr"...how can i remove this "0" abd "1"... :) "JulieD" wrote: Hi Zomex your teacher is obviously in a mean mood today :) for this one - one answer involves a combination of MID and SEARCH functions the way to approach it is - locate the first space using the SEARCH function - locate the second space using the SEARCH function (you'll have to nest the first formula in here again to get your starting point), then subtract the first formula again to calculate the number of chatacters between the two spaces. then nest these two formulas in the MID function. Using the above method will give you leading and trailing spaces, these can easily be edited out by modifying the formula (once you get that far). Give it a go and if you'ld like more help, just post back. Cheers JulieD julied at hctsReMoVeThIs dot net dot au "zomex" wrote: eg. "mick jagger bush" "muhammad ali clay" "ayesha bin batool" suppose that these r the names and i want formula that would be generic to all, such that it gets "jagger" "ali" and "bin" |
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On Tue, 3 Jan 2006 21:19:02 -0800, "zomex"
wrote: eg. "mick jagger bush" "muhammad ali clay" "ayesha bin batool" suppose that these r the names and i want formula that would be generic to all, such that it gets "jagger" "ali" and "bin" =LEFT(REPLACE(A1,1,FIND(" ",A1),""),FIND(" ",REPLACE(A1,1,FIND(" ",A1),""))-1) Will find the first word after the first space. If there may be multiple spaces within the string, then replace all A1 with TRIM(A1) On the other hand, a little more complex, imagine that you may have name strings with 2, 3, or more names. You might want to extract the first name, last name, and all of the middle names separately. You also might want to be able to strip off Titles and such (e.g. Mr., Ms., Jr, III, Sr.) If this is a possibility, then regular expressions would be a more powerful tool to use. You can look at that by installing Longre's free morefunc.xll add-in from http://xcell05.free.fr First Name: =REGEX.MID(TRIM(A1),"\w+") Last Name: =REGEX.MID(TRIM(A1),"\w+$") Middle Names: =REGEX.MID(TRIM(A1),"(?<=\s)(\w+\s)+") Note that the formula for Middle Names will return a blank if there are only two names (i.e. no middle name). --ron |
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