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# Need some help regarding formula to skip alphabet in alpha-numeric cells2

## Need some help regarding formula to skip alphabet in alpha-numeric cells

(OP)
Hi,
I need to print upper and lower values from alpha numeric cell by skipping alphabet.
Input will be like :
Major 2.00
Minor 1.00 R
in a single cell ( 2.00 then alt+enter 1.00 R)

Output should be 2.00 and 1.00 in other 2 cells by skipping alphabet.

I am using the following formulae. But, have some issue with upper limit. some times I am getting less decimal value like if input is 1.0023, printing 1.002.

=LEFT(MID(MID(M324,1,FIND(CHAR(10),M324)),MIN(SEARCH({0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9},MID(M324,1,FIND(CHAR(10),M324))&"0123456789")),MAX(SEARCH({0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9},"0123456789"&MID(M324,1,FIND(CHAR(10),M324))))),SUMPRODUCT(--ISNUMBER(--MID(MID(M324,1,FIND(CHAR(10),M324)),ROW(INDIRECT("1:"&(LEN(MID(M324,1,FIND(CHAR(10),M324)))))),2))))

=LEFT(MID(MID(M324,FIND(CHAR(10),M324),LEN(M324)-FIND(CHAR(10),M324)+1),MIN(SEARCH({0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9},MID(M324,FIND(CHAR(10),M324),LEN(M324)-FIND(CHAR(10),M324)+1)&"0123456789")),MAX(SEARCH({0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9},"0123456789"&MID(M324,FIND(CHAR(10),M324),LEN(M324)-FIND(CHAR(10),M324)+1)))),SUMPRODUCT(--ISNUMBER(--MID(MID(M324,FIND(CHAR(10),M324),LEN(M324)-FIND(CHAR(10),M324)+1),ROW(INDIRECT("1:"&(LEN(MID(M324,FIND(CHAR(10),M324),LEN(M324)-FIND(CHAR(10),M324)+1))))),2))))

Where M324 is particular cell number.

If question is not clear, please let me know.

Regards,
Ravi

### RE: Need some help regarding formula to skip alphabet in alpha-numeric cells

I'd use VBA to write a User Defined Array Function for this.  Use VBA's LEFT(), RIGHT() and MID() functions to extract the two numeric substrings out of the single large string, then use its CDBL() function to convert each substring to the corresponding numerical value.  Return the two values in a 1x2 array.  You'll need to detect and handle errors.  You'll also need to think about what sorts of numeric substrings might be embedded in your single large string.

### RE: Need some help regarding formula to skip alphabet in alpha-numeric cells

Where does this text come from? Is there no way to get the information as two separate numbers to start with?

If not, the blog post here:
https://newtonexcelbach.wordpress.com/2014/11/30/e...
has an open source VBA UDF that will extract all the numbers from a text string as values in separate cells.

Doug Jenkins
Interactive Design Services
http://newtonexcelbach.wordpress.com/

### RE: Need some help regarding formula to skip alphabet in alpha-numeric cells

"Input will be like" indicates that there is a SPACE or LINEFEED character between "words" and each "word" will be either an alpha "word" or a numeric "word."

Is this true in all cases?

Skip,

Just traded in my OLD subtlety...
for a NUance!

### RE: Need some help regarding formula to skip alphabet in alpha-numeric cells

Please explain how the formulas that you presented work.

Doing that will make it apparent why the results you get do not match your expectations.

### RE: Need some help regarding formula to skip alphabet in alpha-numeric cells

(OP)
Dear IRStuff,
I repeatedly saying, I am Design engineer and new to excel.
I am trying something to do in Excel for inspecting dimension values.
I evaluated the formula for upper value and came to know that if some character is before the value, it will print all the number and if not, it will print 1 digit less in the output cell.

### RE: Need some help regarding formula to skip alphabet in alpha-numeric cells

#### Quote:

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You could try responding to those who have provided useful information, rather than someone who didn't.

Did you look at the link I posted?

Does that do what you want? If not, what problems do you have with it?

Doug Jenkins
Interactive Design Services
http://newtonexcelbach.wordpress.com/

### RE: Need some help regarding formula to skip alphabet in alpha-numeric cells

I'd be looking at what data needs to be stored and how its going to provide the functions you need, instead of allocating it as a string and then attempting to process it into something useful.

Your current requirement is 2 data values with a carriage return all in one cell, as an implied string. It would be better if both are defined as numbers for processing and the information is presented to the user as the string implies, not the other way around.

### RE: Need some help regarding formula to skip alphabet in alpha-numeric cells

(OP)
Hi IDS,
I have seen your post, I tried to implement here and not getting the output.
Getting compile error after using the formula =NumericOnly.
Thanks for your post and effort to solve my problem.

Regards,
Ravi

### RE: Need some help regarding formula to skip alphabet in alpha-numeric cells

#### Quote:

Getting compile error after using the formula =NumericOnly

Where did you get = NumericOnly from? There is no function called NumericOnly

Look at the examples in rows 18 to 30 on the ExtractNums sheet. The formula:
=ExtractNums(A1) will extract all the numbers from a string in A1.
To see all the results:
- Enter the formula
- Select the cell with the formula, and as many cells to the right as you have numbers.
- Press Shift-Ctrl-R

Doug Jenkins
Interactive Design Services
http://newtonexcelbach.wordpress.com/

### RE: Need some help regarding formula to skip alphabet in alpha-numeric cells

Does it always end in "R?"

If so, then,

Major 2.0011
Minor 1.00234 R
2.0011 MID(A1,FIND("Major",A1)+6,FIND("Minor",A1)-(FIND("Major",A1)+6))
1.00234 MID(A1,FIND("Minor",A1)+6,FIND("R",A1,FIND("Minor",A1)+6)-(FIND("Minor",A1)+6))

If not, then the second part would be:
MID(A1,FIND("Minor",A1)+6,IF(ISNUMBER(FIND("R",A1,FIND("Minor",A1)+6)),FIND("R",A1,FIND("Minor",A1)+6)-(FIND("Minor",A1)+6),LEN(A1)+1-(FIND("Minor",A1)+6)))

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### RE: Need some help regarding formula to skip alphabet in alpha-numeric cells

(OP)
HI IDS,
Sorry for the late reply as I was on leave these days.
I tried ExtractNums, it was helpful.
Thank you very much for the support and your time.

Regards,
Ravi

### RE: Need some help regarding formula to skip alphabet in alpha-numeric cells

#### Quote (Ravi)

I repeatedly saying, I am Design engineer and new to excel.

But you came up with this formula?

#### CODE --> Excel

=LEFT(MID(MID(M324,1,FIND(CHAR(10),M324)),MIN(SEARCH({0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9},MID(M324,1,FIND(CHAR(10),M324))&"0123456789")),MAX(SEARCH({0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9},"0123456789"&MID(M324,1,FIND(CHAR(10),M324))))),SUMPRODUCT(--ISNUMBER(--MID(MID(M324,1,FIND(CHAR(10),M324)),ROW(INDIRECT("1:"&(LEN(MID(M324,1,FIND(CHAR(10),M324)))))),2))))

=LEFT(MID(MID(M324,FIND(CHAR(10),M324),LEN(M324)-FIND(CHAR(10),M324)+1),MIN(SEARCH({0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9},MID(M324,FIND(CHAR(10),M324),LEN(M324)-FIND(CHAR(10),M324)+1)&"0123456789")),MAX(SEARCH({0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9},"0123456789"&MID(M324,FIND(CHAR(10),M324),LEN(M324)-FIND(CHAR(10),M324)+1)))),SUMPRODUCT(--ISNUMBER(--MID(MID(M324,FIND(CHAR(10),M324),LEN(M324)-FIND(CHAR(10),M324)+1),ROW(INDIRECT("1:"&(LEN(MID(M324,FIND(CHAR(10),M324),LEN(M324)-FIND(CHAR(10),M324)+1))))),2)))) 

### RE: Need some help regarding formula to skip alphabet in alpha-numeric cells

Engineers are nothing if not creative at following programming rules

### RE: Need some help regarding formula to skip alphabet in alpha-numeric cells

(OP)
Hi IDS,
In that =ExtractNums function, for values like 1.230, 1.350 e.t.c, the output is 1.23 and 1.35.
Not able to get full decimals values including zero.

### RE: Need some help regarding formula to skip alphabet in alpha-numeric cells

The FULL decimal values would be 1.2300000000000000000000… … …
Why stop at 3 decimal places?  Especially when the two lonely examples you provided had only 2.
The point of the exercise was to extract a number from some text.  If you want to format the resulting number in a particular way you can do this as a subsequent operation.

### RE: Need some help regarding formula to skip alphabet in alpha-numeric cells

(OP)
Hi Denial,
My inputs will be like 10.350 Dia, R 5.50 like that and I need to get output by removing text with 10.350 and 5.50 so on.
The output should be exactly with all numbers in input including zeros after decimal places as these values will be inspected for measuring components.

### RE: Need some help regarding formula to skip alphabet in alpha-numeric cells

Ravi - if you want to display 3 decimal places, then the simplest and best way to do it is to format the output to display 3 decimal places.

But if you must have the output displaying the same number of decimal places as entered, and that is variable, then you need to return the results as strings, rather than numbers.

So I have added that option to the extractnums function. See the example in the download file.

http://interactiveds.com.au/software/RegExpres.xls...

Doug Jenkins
Interactive Design Services
http://newtonexcelbach.wordpress.com/

### RE: Need some help regarding formula to skip alphabet in alpha-numeric cells

Checking my ExtractNums function, I found it was only returning the last number as a string, the others were still returned as numbers even if the ReturnStrings argument was set to True. I have now fixed that, and also moved the returnstrings argument to be the first optional argument after the data range.

See:
https://newtonexcelbach.wordpress.com/2017/03/11/e...

The input to return the numbers as strings is now: =ExtractNums($A$18,TRUE)

Doug Jenkins
Interactive Design Services
http://newtonexcelbach.wordpress.com/

### RE: Need some help regarding formula to skip alphabet in alpha-numeric cells

(OP)
Hi IDS,
Thank you very much for your support and time.

### RE: Need some help regarding formula to skip alphabet in alpha-numeric cells

I would suggest you review the whole process though.
Can you get the original data input as values in separate cells in the first place?
Can you work with numbers, displayed to a fixed number of decimal places, rather than converting to strings?

Doug Jenkins
Interactive Design Services
http://newtonexcelbach.wordpress.com/

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