I'm working on an Excel file and I need to seperate a long string divided by "|" into different strings
for example:
"AB100|AB101|AB102|AB103"
I need to seperate them into - AB100, AB101, AB102, AB103
Thank you!
From the Ribbon, under the 'Data' tab, select 'Text to Columns' and select the appropriate delimiter, in this case it is |
Illustrative screenshot on where to find it and the output:
Note I have done it with two copies of your example string to show a before and after. It will replace the original string in A1 with the values split across the columns.
With your data in A1, in B1 enter:
=TRIM(MID(SUBSTITUTE($A1,"|",REPT(" ",999)),COLUMNS($A:A)*999-998,999))
and copy across.
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I have a cell which contains data like:
45677|abc|top|IG|pro|sjkdjs|cdf
and i want to extract each one of them into separate columns, is there an excel function that can do this or ill have to use pandas.
Use Data > Text to Columns and set the delimiter to |.
Select the cell or column that contains the text you want to split.
Select Data > Text to Columns.
In the Convert Text to Columns Wizard, select Delimited > Next.
Set the Delimiter to |.
You can see a preview of your data in the Data preview window.
Select Next.
Select the Destination in your worksheet which is where you want the
split data to appear.
Select Finish.
For one row you write how you want it to be.
just like given in above picture.
And then
Select the cell B1
Press CNTRL + E
Follow above 2 steps for each of cell i.e. C1,D1,E1,F1,G1 and H1 and you'll get all the automatically filled with delimiter. Result would be like below img:
Good morning, I was looking for a formula to help me with this in Excel 2016, but I did not succeed, I have this text in a cell:
CF|0101|2019-02-05|01|F007-00000018|PEN|20539043782|6|20479636304|SERVICENTRO SANTA MARIA EIRL|CARRET. JAEN SAN IGNACIO KM 25- CAS. YANUYACU- JAEN||||||||6.10|33.90|6.10|0.00|0.00|0.00|0.00|0.00|0.00|0.00|0.00|0.00|0.00|0.00|33.90|40.00|0.00|0.00|40.00|1000|CUARENTA CON 00/100 SOLES |||||||M5K-788|
I want to extract the text with the help of the separator "|" and in a not so long formula, try with FIND, but the formula becomes very long after the third linked search, is there any way to obtain the position of the separator by number of concurrency? , something like this:
Searched text;Cell;Repetition number(concurrency of simbol)
=FORMULA("|";A1;2)
Result: 8
Or simulate something like this?
From already thank you very much.
**UPDATE
I will not use all the texts among the "|", that's why my need to obtain the position of the separators to extract only the text I need, since the tool "Text to Columns "forces you to give a position for all the separate texts.
If you truly want a formula that will separate everything into unique Columns. Then perhaps you should look at a custom formula. Here is a quick example of UDF that can parse data based on the "|"
Function SplitData(rng As String, Character As Variant, Position As Integer) As Variant
SplitData = Split(rng, Character)(Position - 1)
End Function
Once this function has been placed into a VBA module, then you can call this from any cell within that workbook.
To keep things simple here is the breakout...
=SplitData( <THE CELL THAT CONTAINS THE DATA YOU WISH TO PARSE>, <THE CHARACTER YOU WANT TO USE AS YOUR DELIMITER>, <POSITION IN WHICH YOU WANT TO DISPLAY THE TEXT (Valid Numbers start at 1+> )
The POSITION Point is used to display which section of the text. For example based on your example provided, if you populated the following...
=SplitData(A1, "|", 1) == "CF"
By the way, if you are dead set on finding the location of the "|", then how about using the =Search() formula. This will easily hunt do the character position of the first "|", but with a little bit of work you can get it to display other locations.
As outlined here, you can use Text to Columns:
Select the cell or column that contains the text you want to split.
Select Data > Text to Columns.
In the Convert Text to Columns Wizard, select Delimited > Next.
Select the Delimiters for your data. You'd want to put a | in the "Other" area.
Select Next.
Select the Column data format or use what Excel chose for you.
Select the Destination, which is where you want the split data to
appear on your worksheet.
Select Finish.
Or - if you literally just need all that in a single string, without |, you can use SUBSTITUTE():
=SUBSTITUTE(A1,"|"," ")
I have the task of creating a simple Excel sheet that takes an unspecified number of rows in Column A like this:
1-10-13
1-12-3
1-15-13
And make them into a comma-separated list in another cell that the user can easily copy and paste into another program like so:
1-10-13,1-12-3,1-15-13
This can be done by and draging down:
=B1&","&A2
However, I need the output to be like such:
GIS_ID in ('WV-1-10-13', 'WV-51-1-12-3', 'WV-1-15-13')
Basically, I need to prepend the whole thing with GIS_ID in ( and then insert WV- before each value AND put each in single '' quotes. Please help. Thanks.
With data in A1 through A3, use:
="GIS_ID in ('WV-" & TEXTJOIN("', 'WV-",TRUE,A1:A3) & "')"
The formula can easily be expanded to handle more than three cells.
In Excel, I'm combining large lists using TRANSPOSE then CONCATENATE. My lists are >400 names and not always organized by column.
When I hit "F9" Excel has started adding a ";" between all of my values instead of "," thereby breaking the function. Has anyone else seen this? Know how to fix this? If I manually replace the semicolon, it works again.
Example data:enter image description here
If the names are vertical/organized by column
=TRANSPOSE(A1:A12)&", "
The functional output is
={"John, ","Tom, ","Mary, ","Jackson, ","Rob, ","Gerry, ","Heidi, ","Sheila, ","Alison, ","Wendy, ","Laura, ","Marion, "}
If the names are horizontal/organized by row
=TRANSPOSE(A1:L1)&", "
The non-functional output is
={"John, ";"Tom, ";"Mary, ";"Jackson, ";"Rob, ";"Gerry, ";"Heidi, ";"Sheila, ";"Alison, ";"Wendy, ";"Laura, ";"Marion, "}
If the names are vertical (A1:A12). Put
A2 =A1&","
A3 =A2&B3
and drag both until L3. A3 is your result.
If the names are horizontal (A1:L1), put
B1 =A1&", "
C1 =B1&C2
and drag both until C12. C1 is your result.
Hope that solves. (:
a1=ac_tree_birch_NewYork_ext
a2=bc_animal_dog_Washington_des
How do I separate the text in the cells by the "_", since there is varying length of the cell values. I would like to use a formula, and not text to columns.
Thanks
Use the SUBSTITUTE function to change all underscores (e.g. CHAR(95)) to a large number of spaces (typically the entire length of the original string) and peel out the padded pieces with the MID function. Finish off with TRIM and an IFERROR 'wrapper'.
In B1 as,
=IFERROR(TRIM(MID(SUBSTITUTE($A1, CHAR(95), REPT(CHAR(32), LEN($A1))), (COLUMN(A:A)-1)*LEN($A1)+1, LEN($A1))), TEXT(,))
Fill both right and down.
This can likely be done via Flash Fill (Excel 2013+).
For the first row of data, enter your expected outcome in subsequent cells to the right. This is how you want the data broken up:
Then select your first cell of output data and click Flash Fill from the ribbon:
Do this for the remaining columns. This will fill the column based on the pattern recognized by Excel within your original data:
If a VBA solution is acceptable, you can write a wrapper around the VBA Split function:
Public Function Split2(s As String) As String()
Split2 = Split(s, "_")
End Function
Then in your worksheet, select (say) cells B1:F1, enter
=Split2(A1)
as an array function (CTRL-SHIFT-ENTER), and out comes your data.
Hope that helps.