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    Remove all characters before space in line

    Hi all,

    I am trying to remove all characters left of a space in the following line...
    MD5: a86ef51bf42103dfaddc18bb37d115b8 texlive-utils-2007-57.el6_2.i686.rpm
    the space is right before the texlive in the above statement...
    I have about 5000 rows where I have to do this and each one is different... However, they all have that space in it..

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    Re: Remove all characters before space in line

    gary,

    Welcome to the forum!
    It looks like there is an earlier space also: "MD5: a86e..."
    Will the space always be the second space? Will the space always be the first space when going from the right?
    Hope that helps,
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    Re: Remove all characters before space in line

    Hi tigeravator.

    Thanks for your help...yes, the first space will always be there as well..
    they will all read MD5: and then a space.

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    Re: Remove all characters before space in line

    Alrght, give this a try:

    Assumptions:
    • There are always 2 spaces
    • You only want the information to the right of the second space
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    ---------- Post added at 12:55 PM ---------- Previous post was at 12:52 PM ----------

    Alternately you can use the Find and Replace dialog (ctrl+h)
    In the Find what: "* texlive" (no quotes)
    In the Replace with: "texlive" (no quotes)

    Click Replace All

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    Re: Remove all characters before space in line

    Hi tigeravatar,

    it worked but how do I increment it for each line... In the formula you gave me it has cell a1 - mine goes a1 - a2192

    thanks,

    gary

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    Re: Remove all characters before space in line

    Just copy the formula down. So if the formula is in cell B1, just copy it down to B2192. Alternately, you can double-click the fill handle

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    Re: Remove all characters before space in line

    Thanks for your help, It got up to line 630 and all of a sudden started producing blank results... I am so confused.. LOL

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    Re: Remove all characters before space in line

    Take a look in A630. Something changed. There's probably not a space after MD5:
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    Re: Remove all characters before space in line

    that is what I thought..

    here is line 628 and 629 (this is all on 1 line)...
    MD5: b63403f2cdccb73beeba46f2ccdebb2f kexec-tools-1.102pre-154.el5.x86_64.rpm kexec-tools-1.102pre-154.el5.x86_64.rpm
    MD5: 84a3bde6702fd0b212fb4621f71a46fc kexec-tools-1.102pre-154.el5.src.rpm kexec-tools-1.102pre-154.el5.src.rpm
    here is line 630...
    MD5: 24ea129a5e61c4c27b0bbbd40458f2be libsmbclient-devel-3.0.33-3.38.el5_8.i386.rpm

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    Re: Remove all characters before space in line

    If it is returning blank results that probably means you have trailing spaces. Rather than delete the trailing spaces manually, just alter the formula to include a second Trim() function:
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