Extract Alpha Numeric String

[bmillrine]

I am trying to extract out a sting from text body that is a string of 2 letters followed by 8 numbers. Not sure how to go about doing this i.e. I want to find strings like AB12345678. Not sure if this is Regex or string function.

Thanks

[MarqueeCrew · Accepted solution]

@bmillrine,

regex_replace([String],".*?([a-zA-Z]{2}\d{8}).*",'$1')

That will get you the first occurrence of what you're looking for.  So something like mark Ab12345678 adam Ar12345678 will return: Ab12345678.

You can use that formula in a formula tool :)

If multiple values can exist, I would use the RegEx tool and configure it with the expression:

([a-zA-Z]{2}\d{8})

Then set the output method to Tokenize.

You can either output to Rows or Columns and get all values.

Cheers,

Mark

[bmillrine]

That works great, thank you!

[debn]

I have a similar situation where i have a vstring alphnumeric field.  Need to parse the first 2 letters from the numeric portion.  There are no delimiters.  I tried trimright but it isn't working.  Most of the data set falls into the following format XX12345 or XX123456.  For any that don't fall into that format i would want to filter out.

Appreciate any suggestions you may offer.  thank you

[debn]

never fails - i post and then figure it out.

For anyone else looking to do this, this is the formula I used

trim([string],Right([string],5)) and trim([string],Right([string],6))