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HELP NEEDED: Extracting specific numeric values from alphanumeric cells?

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    HELP NEEDED: Extracting specific numeric values from alphanumeric cells?

    Hi All,

    I need help writing a formula whereby the numeric values at the end of the alphanumeric string is extracted into a different cell.
    Please see example attached, Column A has the alphanumeric values and column B has the desired outputs of the formula.

    All help greatly appreciated!!

    Thanks,
    Hennerby
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    Re: HELP NEEDED: Extracting specific numeric values from alphanumeric cells?

    if the last example should be 0.4 not 0.181
    =SUBSTITUTE(TRIM(RIGHT(SUBSTITUTE(A2," ",REPT(" ",300)),300)),"PA","")

    which gives you the formatted result. if you just want the number values
    =-LOOKUP(2,-RIGHT(SUBSTITUTE(A2,"PA",""),{1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9}))
    Last edited by JosephP; 08-01-2012 at 09:15 AM.
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    Re: HELP NEEDED: Extracting specific numeric values from alphanumeric cells?

    Yes 0.4.
    That's great Joseph, this will do nicely!

    Hennerby

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    Re: HELP NEEDED: Extracting specific numeric values from alphanumeric cells?

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