how to extract a string of numbers from a cell containing text and numbers

[AwesomeSteph]

I have an excel list of over 5 thousand cells in a column. All in column A.
Each cell is unique with different information in a different order.
I need to extract from each of these cells the numbers proceeding "RE" in each cell. however they are not all in the same place in the cell some are the beginning some are at the end and some in the middle. is there an easy formula that I can apply to column B that will find all "RE"'s that have numbers after it and produce just those numbers?

thank you so much for any help with this!

 

[alansidman]

Here is a VBA solution

Option Explicit


Sub FindRE()
    Dim lr As Long, i As Long
    lr = Range("A" & Rows.Count).End(xlUp).Row
    Application.ScreenUpdating = False
    For i = 1 To lr
        If InStr(Range("A" & i), "RE") > 0 Then
            Range("B" & i) = Range("A" & i)
        End If
    Next i


    For i = 1 To lr
        If Range("B" & i) <> "" Then
            Range("B" & i) = Replace(Range("B" & i), "RE", "")
        End If
    Next i
    Application.ScreenUpdating = True
    MsgBox "complete"
End Sub

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Close the VBEditor
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Click the Run button

 

[silentwolf]

HI,
it would be good if you can provide some examples of how the string is in your column and what outcome you like to have.

but something down this line could do what you are after

Function REout(ByVal strText As String) As String
    Dim intPos As Integer
    
    intPos = InStr(strText, "RE")
    
    REout = Mid(strText, intPos + 3)
    
End Function

HTH

 

[AwesomeSteph]

this macro just deleted the "RE". there is a lot of other information in each cell in column A. the result needs to just be RE##### but I need everything after the RE until there is a space.
so for an example Cell A1 contains "Blah, words SA 0.020.01 RE18019 blah 0 -0.01-0.02 Blah blah blah" and what I need to be in cell B1 would be just "RE18019"

 

[Scott Huish]

Here's a formula solution:
=TRIM(LEFT(SUBSTITUTE(MID(A1,FIND("RE",A1&"RE"),255)," ",REPT(" ",255)),255))

Excel 2010
	A	B
1	Blah, words SA 0.020.01 RE18019 blah 0 -0.01-0.02 Blah blah blah	RE18019
Sheet1

Cell Formulas
Range	Formula
B1	=TRIM(LEFT(SUBSTITUTE(MID(A1,FIND("RE",A1&"RE"),255)," ",REPT(" ",255)),255))

 

[veyselemre]

Sub test()    
    With CreateObject("VBScript.RegExp")
        .Pattern = "RE[\d]+"
        For Each huc In Range("A1:A" & Cells(Rows.Count, 1).End(3).Row)
            If .test(huc) Then
                huc.Offset(, 1).Value = .Execute(huc.Value)(0)
            End If
        Next
    End With
End Sub

 

[AwesomeSteph]

Here's a formula solution:
=TRIM(LEFT(SUBSTITUTE(MID(A1,FIND("RE",A1&"RE"),255)," ",REPT(" ",255)),255))

Excel 2010

	A	B
1	Blah, words SA 0.020.01 RE18019 blah 0 -0.01-0.02 Blah blah blah	RE18019

<colgroup><col style="width: 25pxpx"><col><col></colgroup><thead>
</thead><tbody>
</tbody>

Sheet1​

Worksheet Formulas Cell Formula B1 =TRIM(LEFT(SUBSTITUTE(MID(A1,FIND("RE",A1&"RE"),255)," ",REPT(" ",255)),255)) <thead> </thead><tbody> </tbody>

<tbody>
</tbody>

Thank you SO much!!! This is exactly what I needed!!