Text Parsing With Variable Length?
Jun 10, 2014
Column M:
##/##/#### | Variable Length Text-####
Example:
01/06/2014 | Daniel Trimble-4048
I need to parse out the different parts of Column M.
In Column R -- "Close Date", I'm successfully using:
=LEFT(M2,FIND(" | ",M2)-1)
...to extract the close date of the donation.
In Column S, I want to list the donor name--which is all of the text after " | ", and before the "-".
I don't need anything after the hyphen, and fortunately in this data, no one's name has a hyphen in it.
The Close Date is working fine for the LEFT and FIND functions, but for the life of me, I can't seem to get MID to work for the variable-length text. The text will always start in the same position -- 14, as the date and delimiter are standardized. And the last 5 characters of the text are not variable in length, so they can be cut out completely.
How do I use MID to extract everything starting at position 14, and stopping 5 characters short of the end of the text?
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Mar 28, 2006
I am trying to split up a cell into numbers and charachters and place them in
separate columns, but the lenght of the number part varies as does the
content of the character part.
For example, one cell could be 5#, 10Tins, 4 lb, 100Pcs, etc.
I would like to be able to pull out the #, Tins, lb, and Pcs in to their
own column.
I have found this formula:
=LEFT(A1,FIND("-",A1,1)-1)
but it assumes some level of consistency, the "-" in the cell.
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I am trying to extract only the percentage number which can be of variable length, so maybe 900.99% or 9.99%.
I tried this formula:
=MID(G14,SEARCH("%",G14)-5,5)
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Imagine that I have this list of thousands of customers, who are listed in column B in the format "customer no+space+customer name".
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Would have been easy with "Left" command, but as the customer numbers have variable length, I have a problem.
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Jan 18, 2008
I have the following issue. I have a list of strings. Each string contains certain characters that are exactly the same for all strings, some characters are different making the string longer (in some cases). What I need to do is extract some combination of characters from each string. The strings look like this:
AB & CDE & FG & I mmmm yyyy.HIJK
AB & CDE & FG & II mmmm yyyy.HIJK
The part "AB & CDE & FG & " (incl. spaces) is the same for each string. The next part contains a roman count from I to VII, causing the length of each string to vary. The "mmmm" part contains the current month spelled in full e.g. December. This part differs as well, for each string. The "yyyy" part contains the year in four digits, e.g. 2007. The part after the dot is the same for each string again.
What I need to do:
- is to extract the month and assign it to a new string
- extract the year and assign it to a new string
- extract the roman number, translate it to a normal number (II -> 2) and assign to a string (or integer).
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My worksheet contains data with the reaction times on a psychological test. Each respondent in the test has 280 rows in my excel sheet.
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For me it is important to analyse the error. So I would like to give a perfect row length, the value 1, and an error row length a value 2.
So, in conclusion:
If:
Cell length = A1 - M1? --> Copy A1 B1 C1 (A B Cof that row) to Sheet3, and give D1 in sheet 3 the value 1
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It's been a long time, but I use to parse a string in C.
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So I have got an identifier and a corresponding column of values. I need to calculate sum of those corresponding values for each identifier, so if identifier is 1993, I need to have a sum of all the corresponding values. These identifiers repeat, and I do not want to calculate sum for all of them, just the immediate identifiers (i.e. you have 1993, after that you may have 1994 etc etc and then at one point you will have 1993 again, but that "new" 1993 will have a different sum of course). Also, identifiers do not go in sequence sometimes (however, most of the case they do), for example 1993 may jump suddenly to 2004. The trick with all of this is variable "row width" of these identifiers...
222.xlsm
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Say I am interested in reading the data for very last time step, so when I open the text file for reading, I want to move down to the Time Step 3 line. Then I want to read the text line by line, any time I encounter the word WIND, I want to skip five spaces and pick up the number that appears there. I want to paste this value to say cell A1 in a sheet called ParsedData. I want to continue reading till the end while picking all such values and filling the ParsedData sheet A2, A3, A4 ... cells till the end.
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how can I make this simple macro sum columns that will be of variable length? I would like the sum to appear as the last entry in that column and highlighted.
VB:
Range("H36").Select
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Feb 9, 2014
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Jan 22, 2006
I have a SS I would like to reference a cell in a column which changes in
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Is there a simple method for doing this, as the data will routinely be
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Further, there is Data on the Horizontal that I would like to reference to
another cell in another sheet that would correspond to this date. Can anyone
give any suggestions as to the best way to accomdate this?
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So I might also have blank, blank, yellow, blank, blue, purple.
Is there a way I can make an array of just {yellow, blue, purple}? and then the next time it may be {red, blue}
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I require vba code which will allow me to select a range of variable size.
Starting from cell A2 use :
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Dim rangeToName As Range
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Both tries, and anything else I have tried, give the error " Method 'Range' of object _Worksheet failed".
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Feb 10, 2009
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from this:
823
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' PWRII Macro
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I have attached two files, one the sample txt file imported to excel but the top area is highlighed with some notes and section break. RED deleted don't need amd un highlighted is actual data. The other file is what I would like to see the data look like after parse.
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Feb 14, 2010
I am reading lines from a textfile. Each line in the textfile has the identical format: textstring1:textstring2. The two strings are always separated by the : character. I have the code to get textstring1, but because I'm a rookie, I can't figure out how to get textstring2. See the code in bold, this is the line I need to get textstring2.
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Jul 9, 2013
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SHELL TBN...130 CURACAO/JAPAN 18JUL... LS 3.675M PDVSA SUBS
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MINERVA LIBRA...70 BAHAMAS/USG 11JUL... WS 80 STATOIL RPTD
original data
SHELL TBN 130 CURACAO/JAPAN 18JUL LS 3.675M PDVSA SUBS
EVERGLADES 70 CHIRIQUI GRANDE/USG14JUL NR BP
TEXAS STAR 70 ECMEXICO/USG 11JUL NR NR
MINERVA LIBRA 70 BAHAMAS/USG 11JUL WS 80 STATOIL RPTD
CPO ENGLAND 35 ECCANADA/OPTS 07JUL NR CREST ENERGY FLD
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Option Explicit
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