I need help with a formula that will pull just the first 2-3 numbers in a string
Example:
In this example the top one I need it to pull just the 30, in the bottom I want to pull just the 106.
The formula I currently have doesn't work well. When the number is 3 digits it only pulls 2 and occasionally it doesn't work at all and gives me some really strange results.
Current Formula I'm using: =MID(RC[-3],MIN(IF((ISNUMBER(MID(RC[-3],ROW(INDIRECT(""1:""&LEN(RC[-3]))),3)+0)*ROW(INDIRECT(""1:""&LEN(RC[-3])))),ISNUMBER(MID(RC[-3],ROW(INDIRECT(""1:""&LEN(RC[-3]))),3)+0)*ROW(INDIRECT(""1:""&LEN(RC[-3]))))),3)+0
Any help or or push in the right direction would be greatly appreciated!
With this formula it doesn't matter what is before your first numbers, but it depends on the delimiter after your first numbers the "-"
=LET(firstnum; MIN(SEARCH({0;1;2;3;4;5;6;7;8;9};A2&"0123456789"));delimiter;FIND("-";A2);
MID(A2;firstnum;delimiter-firstnum))
if you always have a space before and "-" after your first numbers, you also could this shorter formula:
=LET(space;FIND(" ";A2;1);minus;FIND("-";A2;1);
MID(A2;space;minus-space))
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Here's the table I'm working with:
First off, how can I separate the string of numbers in column C so that they have a comma and space after every two digits?
I was able to partially finish it, but for some reason I can't grab the last two digits. I used this formula:
=MID(C4,1,2)&", "&MID(C4,3,2)&", "&MID(C4,6,2)&", "&MID(C4,10,2)&", "&MID(C4,13,2)&", "&MID(C4,16,2)
After that I need to somehow format that string to look like the example in column E, that's where I'm really confused. Maybe I don't even need the first step?
Any help is appreciated. Thanks
If you already have access to TEXTJOIN formula then it will quickly become your best friend :-)
I assume that your values are in column C (starting from cell C1) and that the column is formatted as text.
Try:
="""stats"":["&TEXTJOIN(", ",TRUE,MID(C1,ROW($A$1:INDEX(A:A,LEN(C1)/2))*2-1,2))&"]"
If your Office 365 version is not using dynamic arrays yet, try entering the formula with Ctrl+Shift+Enter:
I'm using counting invoice numbers (text) in a table's column, but the Excel formula seems to be confusing some values.
I copied small sample of these - please refer to below:
The formulas are as follow:
=COUNTIFS(A1:A19,A1)
=COUNTIF(A1:A19,A1)
As you can see these invoice numbers differ and the results of these functions suggest as if all were the same.
I googled it for 1 hour but I didn't find such as issue as mine.
If anybody had any clue why could this behave in such way I'll be super grateful!
Rob
Each time you copy down this formula it will add 1 row to each. For example the second row of datas formula will be =COUNTIFS(A2:A20,A2). To lock these cells in the formula use $
Your formula should be =COUNTIFS(A$1:A$19,A1)
I've solved this myself:
ROOTCAUSE
Excel tried to be helpful and read these invoice numbers as actual numbers (despite these being defined already in Power Query as text)
Then, Excel fooled me and despite showing that it works on it as a string (I was evaluating the formula) it worked on it as number
Above means that it transformed exemplary "00100001010000018525" to 1.00001E+17, which cut down this to "100001010000018000" - that's the moment Excel stopped fooling around and showed that value in the formula bar.
I think I don't need to tell why countif perceived all these values as equal.
SOLUTION
I simply appended one letter after each invoice number to get e.g. "00100001010000018525a" what forces Excel to quit its gimmicks and games.
Case closed.
I suspect this is a bug in COUNTIF, or maybe by design.
However, to workaround this in the formula, without having to change your data, try adding a wild-card character:
=COUNTIF(A1:A19,"*"&A1)
I have a worksheet looking at football results. I have inserted a formula to discover the longest sequence of blank cells which indicates to me how many games between either wins/draws/defeats. Taking wins as an example which I have in Column H, this formula (The cells in Column H contain either a 1 or are blank)
{=MAX(FREQUENCY(IF(H1:H5077="", ROW(H1:H5077)), IF(H1:H5077=1, ROW(H1:H5077))))}
has told me that the longest sequence without a win for the selected team was 19 matches. That formula and result on my workbook is in cell H5094
What I want to do is discover where amongst 5000+ matches that sequence is?
I've tried this formula which I've used before in an adjacent column and copied down
=IF(COUNTIF(OFFSET(H2,0,0,$H$5094,1),1)=$H$5094,"here","")
however it hasn't worked. I think the mistake is within the formula, possibly the 0 and 1 but I don't know how to put it right, I've tried several variations.
Any help much appreciated.
The method looks fine to me, but the easiest way would be to use COUNTBLANK instead of COUNTIF, so the formula would be:-
=IF(COUNTBLANK(OFFSET(H2,0,0,$H$5094,1))=$H$5094,"here","")
or alternatively
=IF(COUNTIF(OFFSET(H2,0,0,$H$5094,1),"")=$H$5094,"here","")
I noticed that you could get some extra 'heres' if the longest sequence came at the end of the range, but you could fix it by putting a '1' in H5078.
I have a column filled with numbers. Some rows have more than one number and are separated by and underscore '_'. I am trying to create a formula that will check to make sure all numbers in a range - say 1 through 300 are in the column. But, everything I come up with is finding the number even if it is in another one. For example, I am searching for 5 which I know is missing, but the row with 251 matches for the 5.
A sample section of the column:
20_21_22_23_30_130_131_185
20_21_22_23_157_185_233_234_245_246
24_40
24_40_41
24_40_343
28_76
28_254_255
30_44_130_131_226_342
30_76_145_193_224
30_130_131_185_226_245_246_317
31_32_33_35_36_43_44_45
31_32_33_35_36_126_127_128_130_131_187_226
I have a couple hundred rows and need to make sure I have all number listed.
Any suggestions would be helpful.
Thanks!
change your formula to instead of looking for number in string to look for "number" as this is your natural delimiter. or if you get your feed your numbers from any other particular column, let say from B2 onwards, change it in formula to "_" & B2 & "_"
EDIT
as pointed out, this solution will miss the numbers if they are they appear first in the cell. two possibilities there, please bear in mind i am not sure on exact formula you use, and the volumne of cells you go through, one option is to feed in the column with preceding "_" and enter formula as array, but this will somewhat slow down the calculation, another solution is to add a formula next to the original range which will be populate with a formula ="_"&B2and populated down and do the search from this column instead
Because of floating point values, I cannot add a string of cells that contain values such as:
0.08178502
0.09262585
0.13261762
0.13016377
0.12302067
0.1136332
0.12176183
0.11430552
0.09971409
0.125285
Even if I try adding the first two through a sum formula or auto sum through selecting them, excel spits out an error. I have googled this like crazy and tried to change number formats. Is there a function that can allow me to add this information ?
Screenshot:
The spreadsheet is available on my Dropbox.
Those numbers are all preceded by a NBSP (Char Code 160). So, in order to sum them, you have to remove that. Many solutions. Here's one:
=SUMPRODUCT(--SUBSTITUTE(A1:A18,CHAR(160),""))
If a formula like:
=A1+A2+A3+A4+A5+A6+A7+A8+A9+A10
produces:
#VALUE!
then your "numbers" cells contain non-visible characters.
They must be removed before the formula will work.
If the cells contain text strings and not actual values you will need to convert the text to numeric values before performing any calculations. The function "=value(cell)" will bring the numeric value.
e.g.: A1 contains "000.12345678" (or some other non-numeric presentation of numerals)
In cell B1 type: =value(a1)
Cell B1 now operates as the real number 0.12345678
Oddly enough, the fact that it said 0.xxxxx in all numbers vs. .xxxxx is what the issue was. I'm just sharing that for folks who google/search and have same issue.
All I had to do was select that whole row and do a search in replace for "0." and make it just "." and now my numbers were usable in equations. For some reason the adjustment of formating as many searches suggested wasn't working