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[tinferns]

Hi .. this is my firt post.. need you help to derive 1st character/alphabet after every comma in a Cell. For EG:

Cell A1 = YK67CA, UHG7S, COW, EEYKM99

I want the result to be Y, U, C, E

I am not well versed with VBA, prefer if you can sugget a formula on lines of Left, Mid and Right or something similar that will give me above result. I am currently doing the above by using Text to Column..but the process is tooo lengthy.

Thanks.

Martin.

 

[pgc01]

Hi Martin
Welcome to the board

With the string in A1, try in B1:

=IF(LEN($A1)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE($A1,",",""))<COLUMNS($B$1:B1)-1,"",MID(SUBSTITUTE($A1," ",""),FIND("#",SUBSTITUTE(","&SUBSTITUTE($A1," ",""),",","#",COLUMNS($B$1:B1))),1))

Copy to the right

 

[tinferns]

Hi Martin
Welcome to the board

With the string in A1, try in B1:

=IF(LEN($A1)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE($A1,",",""))<COLUMNS($B$1:B1)-1,"",MID(SUBSTITUTE($A1," ",""),FIND("#",SUBSTITUTE(","&SUBSTITUTE($A1," ",""),",","#",COLUMNS($B$1:B1))),1))

Copy to the right

Hi ,

A million thanks for your prompt response..

I have pasted your suggested formula in B1, however the result I got was only the alphabet Y. Result should have been Y, U, C, E.

Any reason to inclue column B1 in the above formula ?

Await your reply.. thanks .. regards.. Martin

 

[pgc01]

Hi

As I said you have to copy the formula to the right,


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If what you want is all in the same cell, better use vba.

 

[TheNoocH]

you could try this UDF

Function splitfirst(myData)
  x = Split(myData, ",")
  mySplit = ""
  For i = LBound(x) To UBound(x)
     mySplit = mySplit & ", " & Left(Trim(x(i)), 1)
  Next i
  splitfirst = Right(mySplit, Len(mySplit) - 2)
End Function

Excel Workbook
	A	B
1	YK67CA, UHG7S, COW, EEYKM99	Y, U, C, E
2	a, bsdfg,cv, d	a, b, c, d
Sheet1

Excel 2007

Cell Formulas
Range	Formula
B1	=splitfirst(A1)
B2	=splitfirst(A2)

If you just want it to run against all cells in column A and put the result in column B run this...NOTE: still need function above...

Sub runsplit()
    For Each cell In Range(Cells(1, "A"), Cells(Cells(Rows.Count, "A").End(xlUp).Row, "A"))
      cell.Offset(0, 1).Value = splitfirst(cell.Value)
    Next cell
End Sub

 

[tinferns]

you could try this UDF

Function splitfirst(myData)
  x = Split(myData, ",")
  mySplit = ""
  For i = LBound(x) To UBound(x)
     mySplit = mySplit & ", " & Left(Trim(x(i)), 1)
  Next i
  splitfirst = Right(mySplit, Len(mySplit) - 2)
End Function

Excel Workbook
	A	B
1	YK67CA, UHG7S, COW, EEYKM99	Y, U, C, E
2	a, bsdfg,cv, d	a, b, c, d
Sheet1

Excel 2007

Cell Formulas
Range	Formula
B1	=splitfirst(A1)
B2	=splitfirst(A2)

If you just want it to run against all cells in column A and put the result in column B run this...NOTE: still need function above...

Sub runsplit()
    For Each cell In Range(Cells(1, "A"), Cells(Cells(Rows.Count, "A").End(xlUp).Row, "A"))
      cell.Offset(0, 1).Value = splitfirst(cell.Value)
    Next cell
End Sub

Thanks PCG,

The formula works.. cheers.. Martin