Tag Archives: Extract number from string

Using Flash Fill

Posted on October 14, 2017 by

There have been several posts here on using functions or user defined functions (UDFs) to extract text or numbers from a longer string (most recently, here), but for many purposes it is quicker and easier to use the “flash-fill” feature, … Continue reading →

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Extracting numbers from text – update

Posted on March 11, 2017 by

I have previously posted a spreadsheet with user defined functions (UDFs) using regular expressions to extract numbers from a text string (see Extracting numbers from text and regular expressions). I have now modified the Extractnums function to optionally return the numbers … Continue reading →

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Extracting numbers from text strings

Posted on December 7, 2013 by

There is often a need to extract numbers from the start or end of text strings.  It’s not too hard to do with on-sheet formulas, but after having done it a few thousand times I decided it would be worth … Continue reading →

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