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Regular Expressions in Excel

Posted on 25/05/2024 by dougaj4

I recently discovered that Microsoft are working on Excel functions to work with Regular Expressions. A beta version is currently available to those on the “insider” program, but this functionality has long been available through VBA, and can also be … Continue reading →

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Extracting numbers from text – update

Posted on 11/03/2017 by dougaj4

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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More on Regular Expressions

Posted on 08/12/2014 by dougaj4

The previous post presented a User Defined Function (UDF) using regular expressions to extract all numbers, or a selected number, from any string (or a list of strings).  In this post I will look more closely at the code used to achieve … 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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Extracting numbers with regular expressions

Posted on 12/04/2014 by dougaj4

Shortly after I wrote about extracting numbers from text strings, Winston Snyder at dataprose.org wrote a detailed article about using “regular expressions” to separate text from numbers in any string.  I have adapted his routine for the same purpose as … Continue reading →

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