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Hello, I need a formula to extract the numbers from an alphanumerical cell

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    Hello, I need a formula to extract the numbers from an alphanumerical cell

    The formula should do the following:

    ORIGIN --------- EXPECTED
    cell B3 -------- cell J3
    D11 -------- 11
    HEP100 -------- 100
    L70 * 7 -------- 70
    L70 * 123 ------ 70
    PL10 * 250----- 10

    I hope you can help.
    Thank you.
    Marco
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    Re: Hello, I need a formula to extract the numbers from an alphanumerical cell

    Array-enter (enter using Ctrl-Shift-Enter) this in J3:

    =SUM(MID(0&LEFT(B3,FIND(" ",B3&" ")-1),LARGE(INDEX(ISNUMBER(--MID(LEFT(B3,FIND(" ",B3&" ")-1),ROW($1:$99),1))*ROW($1:$99),),ROW($1:$99))+1,1)*10^ROW($1:$99)/10)

    You could also use VBA - copy the function below into a standard codemodule and save your workbook as a macro-enabled .xlsm and use the code like

    =FirstNum(B3)
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    Re: Hello, I need a formula to extract the numbers from an alphanumerical cell

    Hello Bernie, thanks for the help but the result of the formula is that it returns the last digit. You can help solve the problem.

    ORIGIN --------- EXPECTED------RESULT
    cell B3 -------- cell J3 -------- cell J3
    D11 -------- 11 -------- 1
    HEP100 -------- 100 -------- 0
    L70 * 7 -------- 70 -------- 7
    L70 * 123 ------ 70 -------- 3
    PL10* 250 ----- 10 -------- 0

    Thank you.
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    Re: Hello, I need a formula to extract the numbers from an alphanumerical cell

    Array-enter the formula using Ctrl-Shift-Enter. If you do that correctly, Excel will show the formula within { } on the formula bar.

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    Re: Hello, I need a formula to extract the numbers from an alphanumerical cell

    Here's a non-array formula to do the same thing:

    =TRIM(LOOKUP(99^99,--("0"&MID(B3,MIN(SEARCH({0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9},B3&"0123456789")),ROW($1:$100)))))+0
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    Re: Hello, I need a formula to extract the numbers from an alphanumerical cell

    thank you very much Glenn and Bernie the formula
    works perfectly.
    Marco

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    Re: Hello, I need a formula to extract the numbers from an alphanumerical cell

    Excelent Thank You

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