Remove list of keywords in Sentence

goble

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Hello,

this has been asked before but my problem is a bit different. I want to get rid of some words in a column using a Macro (or formulae)

textrevised textText to remove
This is a sentence containing keywords. For Analysis, for general.sentence,keywords,analysis,generalis
this is a General Analysisgeneral,analysisthis
a
containing
for

Notes:
  1. Revised text should not contain spaces i.e word1,word2
  2. "This" (starting with capital letter) has been removed even though "this" lower case has been specified
  3. Column "Text to remove" includes the list of predefined words that will need to be removed
  4. "Analysis" has not (or part of it) been removed even though it includes "is"
  5. "." and "," should be removed but result should be delimited with ","
  6. Revised text should all be in lower case.
P.S I know I'm asking a lot ! But thanks in advance ;)
 
Is this closer to the mark?

VBA Code:
Function Remove(s As String, rRemove As Range, rSpecial As Range) As String
  Dim RX As Object, m As Object
  
  Set RX = CreateObject("VBScript.RegExp")
  RX.Global = True
  RX.IgnoreCase = True
  RX.Pattern = "\b(" & Join(Application.Transpose(rSpecial), "|") & ")\b"
  For Each m In RX.Execute(s)
    s = Replace(s, m, Replace(m, " ", "#"), 1, -1, 1)
  Next m
  RX.Pattern = "[^A-Za-z#0-9\-]"
  s = LCase(RX.Replace(s, " "))
  RX.Pattern = "\b(" & Join(Application.Transpose(rRemove), "|") & ")\b"
  Remove = Replace(Replace(Application.Trim(RX.Replace(s, "")), " ", ","), "#", " ")
End Function

goble.xlsm
ABCD
1textText to removeSpecial words
2This is a sentence containing keywords. For Analysis, for general.islas vegassentence,keywords,analysis,general
3this is a General Analysisthislos angelesgeneral,analysis
44k desktop wallpaperasalt lake city4k,desktop,wallpaper
5state-of-the-art techniquecontainingstate-of-the-art,technique
6Building in Las Vegasforbuilding,las vegas
7For Los Angeles and Las Vegas or in Salt Lake Cityinlos angeles,and,las vegas,or,salt lake city
Sheet1
Cell Formulas
RangeFormula
D2:D7D2=Remove(A2,B$2:B$7,C$2:C$4)
 
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That's incredible, thank you so much.

But I would have preferred getting them the 2 process separately. Let me tell you why.

The generated Tags have to be somewhat manually adjusted. For example:

textresult 1result 2Special WordsTo replace by
Las Vegas Flowerlas vegas,flowerlas vegas,flowersflowerflowers
Flowers in Los Angelesflowers,los angelesflowers,los angelestulipflowers
Tulip in New Yorktulip,new yorkflowers,new york

Even though the texts are correct in column A (singular, plural and a kind of flower). There shouldn't be a Tag for "flowers", one for "flower" another one for "tulip". This is where the "Replace by" Column become handy and a human intervention is needed there.

Actually when someone click on flowers, he will get a list of pages which are tagged under flowers. This is done to prevent generating too many tags on the website.
 
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But I would have preferred getting them the 2 process separately.
Perhaps like this?

VBA Code:
Function Remv(s As String, rkeys As Range) As String
  With CreateObject("VBScript.RegExp")
    .Global = True
    .Pattern = "[^A-Za-z0-9'\-]"
    Remv = LCase(.Replace(s, " "))
    .Pattern = "\b(" & Join(Application.Transpose(rkeys), "|") & ")\b"
    Remv = Replace(Application.Trim(.Replace(Remv, "")), " ", ",")
  End With
End Function

Function Repl(s As String, rRepl As Range) As String
  Dim a As Variant
  Dim i As Long
  Dim tmp As String
  
  a = rRepl.Value
  tmp = "," & s & ","
  For i = 1 To UBound(a)
    tmp = Replace(tmp, "," & a(i, 1) & ",", "," & a(i, 2) & ",")
  Next i
  Repl = Mid(tmp, 2, Len(tmp) - 2)
End Function

goble.xlsm
ABCDEF
1textText to removeresult 1Special WordsTo replace byresult 2
2This is a sentence containing keywords. For Analysis, for general.issentence,keywords,analysis,generallas,vegaslas vegassentence,keywords,analysis,general
3this is a General Analysisthisgeneral,analysislos,angeleslos angelesgeneral,analysis
44k desktop wallpapera4k,desktop,wallpapersalt,lake,citysalt lake city4k,desktop,wallpapers
5state-of-the-art techniquecontainingstate-of-the-art,techniquewallpaperwallpapersstate-of-the-art,technique
6Building in Las Vegasforbuilding,las,vegasbuilding,las vegas
7For Los Angeles and Las Vegas or in Salt Lake Cityinlos,angeles,and,las,vegas,or,salt,lake,citylos angeles,and,las vegas,or,salt lake city
8This is John-Paul O'Connor's analysis!john-paul,o'connor's,analysisjohn-paul,o'connor's,analysis
9What is this? Is it a 6?what,it,6what,it,6
Sheet1
Cell Formulas
RangeFormula
C2:C9C2=Remv(A2,B$2:B$7)
F2:F9F2=Repl(C2,D$2:E$5)
 
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Beautiful ! Thank you !

I'm incredibly amazed by the level of support you provide ! Again thank you so much !
 
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