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aawve
Nov 11, 2019Copper Contributor
Extracting substrings from brackets
Hi, I'm working with a large dataset based on journal entry character strings. I have standardized names coded into the strings to allow easier reference for an analysis. An example below (not real ...
- Nov 11, 2019
aawve This User Defined Function does the trick:
Function ExtractNames(TextWithNames) As String Dim Pos As Long Dim Ct As Long Dim BracketStart As Long Dim Result As String Dim WithInBrackets As Boolean If TypeName(TextWithNames) = "Range" Then TextWithNames = TextWithNames.Value End If Pos = InStr(TextWithNames, "[") If Pos <> 0 Then WithInBrackets = True BracketStart = Pos For Ct = Pos To Len(TextWithNames) If WithInBrackets Then If Mid(TextWithNames, Ct, 1) = "]" Then WithInBrackets = False Result = Result & Mid(TextWithNames, BracketStart + 1, Ct - BracketStart - 1) Result = Result & "," End If ElseIf Mid(TextWithNames, Ct, 1) = "[" Then WithInBrackets = True BracketStart = Ct End If Next End If If Len(Result) > 0 Then Result = Left(Result, Len(Result) - 1) ExtractNames = Result End Function
aawve
Nov 12, 2019Copper Contributor
Thank you. It worked amazingly.
JKPieterse
Nov 12, 2019Silver Contributor
You're welcome!