Extract Specific Data within text cell

[psyracusa]

Hi - I have a comments text cell and somewhere within will contain a specific string of numbers I need to extract and place into a seperate cell.
The number I need to look for will always be in a ###-###-### format (ex: 145-875-886)
How do have excel scan the cell for this format and automatically extract it to a new cell for me?
Many thanks.

 

[L. Howard]

How about posting about four or five examples of the comments that would represent typical cell contents.

Howard

 

[hiker95]

psyracusa,

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[psyracusa]

Typical cell will look like:

Cell K1 = send customer terminal sn 168-179-329 reg3 ip: 010.169.101 gateway: 010.101.001 -- JNQ-1501920

Cell K2 = MCM Readiness - Register 3 S/N 168-179-445 Not Showing Correctly in VHQ, Maxwell Ticket #SHK-1309 pending update

Cell K106 = Send Customer Terminal S/N 168-179-655

Cell K325 = Send CT S/N 168-179-673 register 1 Gateway 0187.049.001 IP 010.0187.049 I need to extract the S/N # (sn) and it's always ###-###-### that I bolded above and paste it into the adjacent next column (L) Thank you.

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[István Hirsch]

Put this formula in cell L1 and copy down:

=TRIM(MID(K1,MIN(SEARCH({" sn????-???-????"," S/N????-???-????"},K1&" sn ???-???-??? S/N ???-???-??? "))+4,12))

Excel Workbook
	A	B
1	send customer terminal sn 168-179-329 reg3 ip: 010.169.101 gateway: 010.101.001 -- JNQ-1501920	168-179-329
2	MCM Readiness - Register 3 S/N 168-179-445 Not Showing Correctly in VHQ, Maxwell Ticket #SHK-1309 pending update	168-179-445
3	Send Customer Terminal S/N 168-179-655	168-179-655
4	Send CT S/N 168-179-673 register 1 Gateway 0187.049.001 IP 010.0187.049	168-179-673
Sheet

 

[psyracusa]

that worked perfectly! Many thanks!

 

[István Hirsch]

You are welcome, thanks for the feedback.

 

[Rick Rothstein]

I need to extract the S/N # (sn) and it's always ###-###-### that I bolded above and paste it into the adjacent next column (L)

Just so you know, the normal pattern for Social Security Numbers is nine digits, but not patterned the way you show in your question; rather, the pattern is this... ###-##-####. The description of the parts between the dashes can be found in this article...

Social Security number - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia