hello friends
can any body tell me how to get the position of a word in a string in excel.
for eg:
pen in pen
i want to get the second pen's position
or
second p's positon
thanks in advance
regards
Kishore
hello friends
can any body tell me how to get the position of a word in a string in excel.
for eg:
pen in pen
i want to get the second pen's position
or
second p's positon
thanks in advance
regards
Kishore
Try:
=FIND("#",SUBSTITUTE(A1,"pen","#",2))
You can replace the "pen" with "p" or whatever you want to find. The 2 indicates occurrence number, so if you wanted to find a third pen, you would change the 2 to a 3.
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Another method. This will return the starting position of the second instance of "pen":
=SEARCH("pen",A1,SEARCH("pen",A1,1)+1)
HTH
Jason
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