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Copper Contributor

Dec 12, 2018

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Create text string from input

Is there a formula that creates a text string as shown below from the following inputs: Period Start 4 Period End 6 Factor 0.5 Text string 4|0.5;5|0.5;6|0.5 The text string is in a format th...

Formulas and Functions

JWR1138
Dec 12, 2018
Are you familiar with User Defined Functions? I believe the function below would do what you are after.

Function PeriodString(PeriodStart As Integer, PeriodEnd As Integer, Factor As String)

Dim i As Integer

For i = PeriodStart To PeriodEnd

If i = PeriodEnd Then
PeriodString = PeriodString & i & "|" & Factor
Else
PeriodString = PeriodString & i & "|" & Factor & ";"
End If

Next i

End Function

JetJungle

Copper Contributor

Dec 12, 2018

In case this is not clear perhaps if I present it in a spreadsheet format

          A                B                C                  D
Period Start    Period End    Factor      Text String
          4                  6               0.5      4|0.5;5|0.5;6|0.5

The text string needs to return each individual period in the range 4 through 6 and concatenate a "|" together with the factor and ";" after each individual period.

Hopefully this helps