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VBA, remove all characters within a string, except numerical characters and full stops

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    VBA, remove all characters within a string, except numerical characters and full stops

    I'm after a code that would remove all characters within a string that are not numbers (1234567890) and aren't full stops (.)


    So lets say I have a string of text "ts [$11.40 USD]" (without quotes) in col F
    Then after I would run the macro, it would only leave "11.40"
    I'm looking for an easy and efficient code.

    I have piece of code below that replaces "]" with blanks "". That is just an example that I would like to replace with something as described above.
    Any help is very much appreciated. Any ideas?


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    Re: VBA, remove all characters within a string, except numerical characters and full stops

    Hey Rain,

    I have this Link stored..

    http://www.mrexcel.com/forum/excel-q...haracters.html
    1. Remove Numeric characters
    2. Remove Alphabetic characters
    3. Remove Non-Numeric characters
    4. Remove Non Alphabetic characters
    5. Remove Non Alpha-Numeric characters
    6. Remove Unprintable characters

    Check if this may help you in advance... as a Quick
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    Re: VBA, remove all characters within a string, except numerical characters and full stops

    Hey Parth
    Thank you for the link. I had a look of the link that you gave me, and played around with some codes but I could not achieve a code that it would only keep numbers and full stops. This one is pretty difficult to figure out....

    Though I'm sure somebody probably knows a genius way or has a out of the box thinking to achieve this. Any suggestions and ideas are very much welcome.

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    Re: VBA, remove all characters within a string, except numerical characters and full stops

    Maybe ...

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    Re: VBA, remove all characters within a string, except numerical characters and full stops

    Beatiful piece of code. It works like a charm. As I'm still learning and want to get better, can I leave some comments inside the code in terms of how I understand it. Am I more or less understanding it correctly?


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    Re: VBA, remove all characters within a string, except numerical characters and full stops

    Here's another one to try..

    I have assumed (as you showed in your example).. that there is only one instance of the the xx.xx in each cell...

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    Re: VBA, remove all characters within a string, except numerical characters and full stops

    Am I more or less understanding it correctly?
    Yup, you got it.

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