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Importing Text Files; Unix Format

Posted on 10/11/2015 by dougaj4

Text files generated on Unix systems have a different convention to denote the ends of lines to that used on Dos/Windows systems (see Newline for more details).  This was causing problems with the Text-in2 spreadsheet, with small files being imported with … Continue reading →

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Extracting numbers from text and regular expressions

Posted on 30/11/2014 by dougaj4

Daily Dose of Excel recently had a post on extracting a number from a specified position in a text string, using mega-in-sheet-formulas like: This reminded me of a post from earlier this year, which provided a User Defined Function (UDF) … Continue reading →

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