Is it possible to create any formula in excel to kick out any certain portion from a string and keep the rest? If I consider this a string Utopia(UTP), my expected output is UTP. To be specific: I would like to grab the bracketed portion and strip the rest.
These are the texts I would like to apply formula on:
Utopia(UTP)
Euphoria(EUPR)
Ecstasy(ECST)
The output I wish to have:
UTP
EUPR
ECST
FIND() will identify where a particular character first appears in a string. You can use this to find the parentheses in your text strings. Then plug those numbers into MID to extract the strings you want:
=MID(A2,FIND("(",A2)+1,FIND(")",A2)-FIND("(",A2)-1)
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Very new to Netsuite. I'm trying to use a saved item search to find all instances of {componentitem} entry is 800484 and replace them with component 516551302688
I'm using the REPLACE function in the saved item search but it doesn't like my formula REPLACE(800484, [, 516551302688]){componentitem}
I'm sure I am doing something wrong in the formula but unsure what it is.
The function signature for REPLACE is:
REPLACE(char, search_string, replacement_string)
char is the text to search in.
search_string is the text to search for.
replacement_string is the text to replace the search_string with, where found.
What you have appears to be more like
REPLACE(search_string, replacement_string)char
The text you want to search in is outside of the function altogether (outside the parentheses that enclose what the function will act on). You also have additional brackets and a comma in your formula.
Based you the information in your question, your formula should be
REPLACE({componentitem}, '800484', '516551302688')
I have wrapped the search and replacement strings in quotes as REPLACE deals with strings. If you leave the quotes off, the database will infer the string values of the numbers given and it will still work, but it's best practice to be explicit.
Note that this will only replace the values within the results of the saved search, and will have no effect on the underlying records. Hopefully you already know this, but I just mention it as the wording of your question makes it appear as if you're expecting it to substitute the actual components.
HTH.
what is the easiest way with an Excel formula to extract certain details from a cell? So for example, if this is in cell A1 column=""HMI_LOCATE"" px=""CLASS"" position=""99"" validation=""ROOM"" then I'm trying to extract just the data the falls in between the double "" after the px= so in this example, I need to extract just the letters CLASS and nothing else, what is the easiest way to extract that data, the part I'm trying to extract won't always be 5 characters long it could be much longer or shorter.
Do you want to achieve this?
With o365 you can use this formula
=FILTERXML("<t><s>"&SUBSTITUTE(A1,CHAR(34)&CHAR(34),"</s><s>")&"</s></t>","//s[position() mod 2 = 0]")
or for older EXCEL-versions
=IFERROR(INDEX(FILTERXML("<t><s>"&SUBSTITUTE($A$1,CHAR(34)&CHAR(34),"</s><s>")&"</s></t>","//s"),ROW(A1)*2),"-")
This splits the string at the quotation marks (CHAR(34)) and builds an array of elements. Then every second element is put out.
For tons of other possibilities have a look at this awesome guide by JvdV.
EDIT:
To get the element after px= no matter where it is, you can use
=LET(list,
FILTERXML("<t><s>"&SUBSTITUTE($A$1,CHAR(34)&CHAR(34),"</s><s>")&"</s></t>","//s"),
INDEX(list,MATCH("px=",list,0)+1)
)
The LET-function lets you assign functions to variables which then can be used for further calculations.
I have this file where I want to make a conditional check for any cell that contains the letter combination "_SOL", or where the string is followed by any numeric character like "_SOL1524", and stop looking after that. So I don't want matches for "_SOLUTION" or "_SOLothercharactersthannumeric".
So when I use the following formula, I also get results for words like "_SOLUTION":
=IF(ISNUMBER(FIND("_SOL",A1))=TRUE,"Yay","")
How can I avoid this, and only get matches if the match is "_SOL" or "_SOLnumericvalue" (one numeric character)
Clarification: The whole strings may be "Blabla_SOL_BLABLA", "Blabla_SOLUTION_BLABLA" or "Blabla_SOL1524_BLABLA"
Maybe this, which will check if the character after "_SOL" is numeric.
=IF(ISNUMBER(VALUE(MID(A1,FIND("_SOL",A1)+4,1))),"Yay","")
Or, as per OP's request and suggestion, to include the possibility of an underscore after "SOL"
=IF(OR(ISNUMBER(VALUE(MID(A1,FIND("_SOL",A1)+4,1))),ISNUMBER(FIND("_SOL_",A1))),"Yay","")
Here is an alternative way to check if your string contains SOL followed by either nothing or any numeric value up to any characters after SOL:
=IF(COUNT(FILTERXML("<t><s>"&SUBSTITUTE(A1,"_","1</s><s>")&"</s></t>","//s[substring-after(.,'SOL')*0=0]")>0),"Yey","Nay")
Just to use in an unfortunate event where you would encounter SOL1TEXT for example. Or, maybe saver (in case you have text like AEROSOL):
=IF(COUNT(FILTERXML("<t><s>"&SUBSTITUTE(A1,"_","</s><s>")&"</s></t>","//s[translate(.,'1234567890','')='SOL']")>0),"Yey","Nay")
And to prevent that you have text like 123SOL123 you could even do:
=IF(COUNT(FILTERXML("<t><s>"&SUBSTITUTE(A1,"_","1</s><s>")&"</s></t>","//s[starts-with(., 'SOL') and substring(., 4)*0=0]")>0),"Yey","Nay")
I have a sequence of a letters, in my case part of a gene. I want to change the first and the last letter in this string of text, but keep the internal characters the same.
For example, if I have the the sequence:
ATCGAATCCATGACG
And I want to change the first letter, in this case A to the word START and change the last letter, G, to STOP all while keeping the internal A's and G's the same. Is this possible to do with the Find and Replace function, or will I have to write a script?
It is easy to do when I have a handful of sequences, I do it by hand. When I get into the hundreds, it can be very difficult.
Thank you.
The function LEN(text) returns the number of characters within a string of letters. MID(text, start, num_chars) returns the middle section of a string. CONCATENATE(text1, text2, ...) pieces together different strings. We can use these in combination to get what you want:
=CONCATENATE("START", MID(A1,2,LEN(A1)-2), "STOP")
You could use replace, and focus on the left and right side independently, then combine, or you can use left/right to add string of text to the available string minus a character, like:
="START"&LEFT(RIGHT(A1,LEN(A1)-1),LEN(A1)-2)&"STOP"
I used left/right, but mid would also work
just another option:
=REPLACE(REPLACE(A1,LEN(A1),1,"STOP"),1,1,"START")
I'm trying to bring back one of two possible words (Local or National) from a text string, and if neither of these words are in the text string, then bring back the string in the whole cell
The issue I have is that I can bring back either word when they appear, but I get an error when they do not
I'm currently using
=IFERROR(IF(SEARCH("*local*",B2,1),"Local"),IF(SEARCH("*national*",B2,1),"National"))
However this obviously this doesn't bring back if the words not exist
I'm sure it's easy and I'm missing something, but I just cannot figure it out. any help would be great
Cheers all
You can use:
Formula in B1:
=IF(ISNUMBER(SEARCH("*local*",A1)),"Local",IF(ISNUMBER(SEARCH("*national*",A1)),"national",A1))
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Note:
Notice that your wildcards make it that even a string with 'international' in it will return 'national'. If this is not what you want, you should remove the wildcards.
You can also use INDEX/AGGREGATE:
=IFERROR(INDEX({"local","national"},AGGREGATE(15,7,ROW($1:$2)/(ISNUMBER(SEARCH({"local";"national"},A1))),1)),A1)
This will allow one to replace the both hard coded arrays with a range of cells that contain the outputs. If Local and National were in D1:D2 then you can use:
=IFERROR(INDEX($D:$D,AGGREGATE(15,7,ROW($D$1:$D$2)/(ISNUMBER(SEARCH($D$1:$D$2,A1))),1)),A1)
That way if the list gets bigger the formula does not.
I'd suggest regular expressions.
=IF(REGEXMATCH(A2,"(Local|National)"),REGEXEXTRACT(A2,"(Local|National)"),A2)