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Hi there, if I have a text string in cell A1, what code can I use in B1 that will extract the text from A1 before the first number or bracket?
Example:
Sebs Sensei (IRE) 8/1 would be - Sebs Sensei
Ermine Ruby 4/1 would be - Ermine Ruby
Hi there, if I have a text string in cell A1, what code can I use in B1 that will extract the text from A1 before the first number or bracket?
Example:
Sebs Sensei (IRE) 8/1 would be - Sebs Sensei
Ermine Ruby 4/1 would be - Ermine Ruby
This may be too simplistic, but if it's always the first two words as a name:
=TRIM(LEFT(SUBSTITUTE(A1, " ", REPT(" ", 50)), 100))
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for the second question
=LEFT(A2;search({1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9},A2,1)-3)
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try this array entered formula
=IFERROR(LEFT(A1,MIN(IFERROR(SEARCH(CHAR({40,48,49,50,51,52,53,54,55,56,57}),A1),""))-2),"")
...confirmed by pressing CTRL+SHIFT+ENTER to activate the array, not just ENTER. You will know the array is active when you see curly braces { } appear around your formula. If you do not CTRL+SHIFT+ENTER you will get an error or a clearly incorrect answer. Press F2 on that cell and try again.
Row\Col Sebs Sensei (IRE) 8/1 Sebs Sensei Ermine Ruby 4/1 Ermine Ruby Allen John Flavin (FRA) 12/5 Allen John Flavin Buffy Hoggatt 7/23 Buffy Hoggatt Roxann L Romberg 5/6 Roxann L Romberg Klara Grund (RU) 6/29 Klara Grund
Last edited by AlKey; 10-22-2014 at 07:16 PM.
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