Parsing a alpha character out of a cell

Is it always one character?

Is the one character always at the right (end) of the entry?

=left(a1,len(a1)-1)

Great! Read up on both functions - Left and Len. Look at the Right function, too.

On Sat, 15 Oct 2005 10:53:43 -0500, Lram
<[email protected]> wrote:

>
>I have a spreadsheet containing weather data - the cells containing
>windspeed and wind direction contain a data flag in addition to the
>numeric value, example 90S for wind direction and 2.1S for wind speed.
>I wish to get rid of the alpha character so I can work with the numeric
>values.
>
>How do I parse each cell to remove the alpha character(s)?

If the data flag is always there, and always a single character, then:

=--LEFT(A1, LEN(A1)-1)


--ron

If the values need to be numeric, you may want to do this to convert back to
numbers.

=LEFT(A1,LEN(A1)-1)*1

HTH
Regards,
Howard

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> I have a spreadsheet containing weather data - the cells containing
> windspeed and wind direction contain a data flag in addition to the
> numeric value, example 90S for wind direction and 2.1S for wind speed.
> I wish to get rid of the alpha character so I can work with the numeric
> values.
>
> How do I parse each cell to remove the alpha character(s)?
>
>
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