RegExp function

[pkiula]

Hi, I have a column with


ABC (abc)
XYZ (xyz)
EDG (edg)
..


Is there a way I can transform this column into an adjoining column that has only the values inside the brackets, so that the column looks like this:

abc
xyz
edg
...


I looked for regular expressions (regexp) help, but could not find an easy solution.

Thanks!

[ramananhrm]

Please try this function.

=SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(RIGHT(SUBSTITUTE(A1,"(",REPT("!",LEN(A1))),LEN(A1)),"!",""),")","")

[pkiula]

I tried this, just to use substrings, but this doesn't cover for text outside the brackets that may also have brackets.

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The above thing works, except if my column was:

ABC(something) (abc)
XYZ (xyz)
EDG (edg)
..

I want this to return:

abc
xyz
edg
..


But the first one won't work due to multiple parantheses.

Any suggestions? Thanks!

[FDibbins]

based on your last post...you said you wanted the text inside (). Well if you have 2 (or 3 or more?) sets of (), how is excel supposed to know which set to pick?

[pkiula]

Please try this function.

=SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(RIGHT(SUBSTITUTE(A1,"(",REPT("!",LEN(A1))),LEN(A1)),"!",""),")","")

Thanks so much Ramananhrm! That works! It also works with many parentheses repeated before the text I wish to extract, so it's exactly what I wanted. Much appreciate!

[:) Sixthsense :)]

Or

For Single Iteration of () data

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[pkiula]

Please try this function.

=SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(RIGHT(SUBSTITUTE(A1,"(",REPT("!",LEN(A1))),LEN(A1)),"!",""),")","")

If you have a minute, could you please explain what this is doing? Thanks!

[ramananhrm]

Step1: Wherever the "(" is placed within the sentance, a temp character is used to create a distance ( I have used "!")
=SUBSTITUTE(A1,"(",REPT("!",LEN(A1)))

Step2: The "!" is directing towards right/left
=RIGHT(SUBSTITUTE(A1,"(",REPT("!",LEN(A1))),LEN(A1))

Step3: Remove all the temp values using an additional 'Substitute' function
=SUBSTITUTE(RIGHT(SUBSTITUTE(A1,"(",REPT("!",LEN(A1))),LEN(A1)),"!","")

Step4: Finally use one more 'Substitute' function to remove the opposite bracket ie., ")"
=SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(RIGHT(SUBSTITUTE(A1,"(",REPT("!",LEN(A1))),LEN(A1)),"!",""),")","")