![]() That requires VBA since SQL has no looping construct. And Chris Webb has good example using it for text. If you have this challenge you shouldn’t use Split Columns or Text.Range to do this but check out. IF neither of those is true, then you need a loop to examine the field character by character and pull out all the letters or all the numbers one at a time. When you are working with data in Excel or PowerBI the data often contains columns that is a combination of text and numbers. The two parts are separated by a delimiter ![]() For example - always starts with three lettersĢ. I am looking to split hyphen-separated data into individual cells. To extract text: LEFT (A2, B2-1) To extract number: RIGHT (A2, LEN (A2)-B2+1) Where A2 is the original string, and B2 is the position of the first number. One (or both) of the parts of the string is fixed in length. Once the position of the first digit is found, you can split text and numbers by using very simple LEFT and RIGHT formulas. What exactly does "increasing by 1 each iteration" mean? Are you saying the expression you posted does this or are you saying that Steve has to call the query manually a dozen times if the field to parse is 12 characters long.Įxtracting letters and numbers from a string is easy with integral VBA functions IF:ġ. We are out of context since I don't recall your original answer. You run this query, starting with a 1 value for parmPosn and increasing by 1 each iteration until you have parsed all the rows, probably the max value will be the max string length. Find the position of the number in the string. ![]() ParmPosn is the place where the query will do the split if it is numeric. Here are three steps you can follow to separate numbers from text in Excel with formulas: 1.
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