Hello and thanks in advance for any attention this post will receive.
I have a value in a cell that contains container id's and dates which i need to separate into separate cells. Column A is called 'Containers' and there are in excess of 1000 entries so separating manually is very laborious; a formula would be ideal - i have tried using LEN, MID, LEFT and RIGHT, with no success. I need to separate the id's (e.g. D5602) from the date. Some cells have two ID/ date combinations and others have 3 ID/date combinations. Some ID's have 4 characters and others have 5. Dates are always in brackets DD/MM/YY. Each ID/Date is separated by a comma. I do not wish to use 'Text to Columns as it is too manual a process.
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I have a value in a cell that contains container id's and dates which i need to separate into separate cells. Column A is called 'Containers' and there are in excess of 1000 entries so separating manually is very laborious; a formula would be ideal - i have tried using LEN, MID, LEFT and RIGHT, with no success. I need to separate the id's (e.g. D5602) from the date. Some cells have two ID/ date combinations and others have 3 ID/date combinations. Some ID's have 4 characters and others have 5. Dates are always in brackets DD/MM/YY. Each ID/Date is separated by a comma. I do not wish to use 'Text to Columns as it is too manual a process.
COL 'A' | |
1 | CONTAINERS |
2 | D5602(07/06/15),D540(06/06/15),C9856(30/05/15) |
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