Excel VBA Extract Specific Data from Column of Mixed Data - excel

Question

I have a list of Tyres form the internet, the list is 5,000 lines long in one column.
I need to extract from each line the data in BOLD ideally into the next column
EXAMPLE of TYRES
LS388 (145/70 R13 71T)
LS388 (155/65 R13 73T)
LS388 (155/65 R14 75T)
4-Seasons (155/65 R14 75T)
CT6 (155/70 R12 104N) 72EE
LS388 (155/70 R13 75T)
The problem is that the number can be between 59 and 120 and the letter could be H T V R N X Z and so on. Also the text could be anywhere within the line of data not always towards the end as shown.
There could be 100 variations to look for and
Rather than having one line of code to search for a LIKE 71T for each line of tyres, can I use a source table of these variations and reference them one by one in the code is some sort of loop? or other suggestions if in VBA appreciated
At the moment I have this VBA code for each possible variation, one line for each variant.
ElseIf ActiveCell.Value Like "*79S*" Then
ActiveCell.offset(0,1).Value = "79S"

Answer 1

Insert this formula in a cell it is assuming your string is present in column A, you can change it if it is not the case and check how many it extracts.
=MID(A1,SEARCH(" ",A1,SEARCH("R1?",A1))+1,SEARCH(")",A1)-SEARCH(" ",A1,SEARCH("R1?",A1))-1)
filter out the remaining ones, find some thing common in them and let me know and we can build another formula for those cells.

Answer 2

I recommend to use Regular Expressions for that if you need to do it with VBA. There is a pretty good explanation at
How to use Regular Expressions (Regex) in Microsoft Excel both in-cell and loops.
As pattern you could use something like .+\(.+ (.+)\).* (see https://regex101.com/r/jK1zKc/1/)
For a manual solution
Use Split text into different columns with the Convert Text to Columns Wizard to split into columns by the spaces.
Then do a simple replace ")" by "" in column D.
Or do the manual solution with VBA (assuming your data in column A):
Option Explicit
Sub SplitAndDelet()
Range("A:A").TextToColumns Destination:=Range("A1"), DataType:=xlDelimited, _
TextQualifier:=xlDoubleQuote, ConsecutiveDelimiter:=True, Tab:=False, _
Semicolon:=False, Comma:=False, Space:=True, Other:=True, OtherChar:= _
")", FieldInfo:=Array(Array(1, 1), Array(2, 1), Array(3, 1), Array(4, 1), Array(5, 1)) _
, TrailingMinusNumbers:=True
Range("A:C,E:E").Delete Shift:=xlToLeft
End Sub

Answer 3

If you want to do this in vba you could set up an array of tyres and loop through them for each cell. for example if you had this on your sheet;
you could do something like this;
Public Sub FindTyres()
' Column to Loop
Dim col As String
col = "B"
' rows to Loop
Dim startRow As String
Dim endRow As String
startRow = "2"
endRow = "7"
' Get list of Tyres
Dim tyresArr()
tyresArr = getTyresArr()
' Set Range to Loop
Dim rng As Range, cell As Range
Set rng = Range(col & startRow & ":" & col & endRow)
' Looping through Array params
Dim tyre As Variant
' Loop through Cells
For Each cell In rng
currentCellVal = cell.Value
' Loop through tyres
For Each tyre In tyresArr
Debug.Print tyre
' if you find it do something
If InStr(1, currentCellVal, CStr(tyre)) <> 0 Then
MsgBox "Value " & CStr(tyre) & " Contained in Cell " & cell.Address
Exit For
End If
Next tyre
Next cell
End Sub
Private Function getTyresArr()
Dim tyresArr(3)
tyresArr(0) = "71T"
tyresArr(1) = "73T"
tyresArr(2) = "75T"
tyresArr(3) = "104N"
getTyresArr = tyresArr
End Function
Please note this assumes you will only ever have one tyre code per line.
you may get some false positives if these strings exist for other reasons.
you would need to enter all the codes into the function that returns the array.