Extracting the result from a football fixture

[tom hatten]

Hello.

I'm trying to extract just the score line from any given result as shown in cell A1 of the attachment.
In row 3, is the required result. Can this be done?

Thank you.

[Glenn Kennedy]

In A3, copeid across:
=TRIM(MID(SUBSTITUTE(" "&$A1," ",REPT(" ",125)),125*COLUMNS($A:A),125))

HOWEVER, I guarantee that the ACTUAL problem will be more complicated that this suggests...

[Glenn Kennedy]

An alternative that will work with multi-word team names.

team 1
=LEFT(A1,MIN(FIND({0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9},A1&"0123456789"))-1)

Score
=TRIM(LEFT(TRIM(SUBSTITUTE(A1,F5,"")),SEARCH(" ",TRIM(SUBSTITUTE(A1,F5,"")))))

Team 2
=MID(A1,SEARCH(G5,A1)+LEN(G5)+1,255)

You seem to be using an older version of Excel than me. So, please refer to the attached file. If the formulae are enclosed within a pair of { }, these are array formulae.

These are a little different from ordinary formulae in that they MUST be confirmed in the FIRST CELL ONLY by pressing CTRL+SHIFT+ENTER to activate the array, not just ENTER. After that, the array can be dragged down as normal, to cover the desired range.

You will know the array is active when you see the curly brackets { } appear around the outside of your formula. If you do not use CTRL+SHIFT+ENTER you will (almost always) get an error message or an incorrect answer. Press F2 on that cell and try again.

Don't type the curly brackets yourself - it won't work...

[Fluff13]

Another option if you have names that contain a space
=TRIM(LEFT(A1,FIND("-",A1)-2))
=TRIM(MID(A1,FIND("-",A1)-2,5))
=TRIM(SUBSTITUTE(A1,A3&" "&B3,""))

[tom hatten]

Both solutions work well for me. Thank you both very much.

[Fluff13]

Glad to help & thanks for the feedback.

[Glenn Kennedy]

You're welcome.

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