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Help with if function to deleted characters if met criteria
Hi guys,
I'm working with a data set where have a lot of website links. The thing is that most of the links are personalized. For example https://this/testing?wvideo=9gpspqefxd
What I need is to delete all the characters after the question mark (?) so that I would look like this:
https://this/testing
I've already figured out the function to delete that which is =LEFT(A1,FIND("?",A1)-1). However, in the list, of websites, there are also links that don't have the question mark (?), therefore, when I apply the formula to all cells, the ones that don't have the (?) show me as #VALUE!
I thought of using an IF function but I've been struggling to make it work. This is the formula:
=IF(M2="?","(LEFT(M2,FIND("?",M2)-1))","M2")
It is supposed to find in A1 the character (?), and after the condition is met, it should do the rest but doesn't work.
I appreciate it if you can help me.
Thank you!
1 Reply
- NikolinoDEPlatinum Contributor
here is a link as info for this function
SEARCH, SEARCHB functions
or....
Start menu
Search and select menu
From this menu you can select Search for cells and, if necessary, change text or formulas.I would be happy to find out if I could help.
Nikolino
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