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Splitting a string into multiple values

MorneViljoen
7 - Meteor

Hi 

 

I am looking for something to assist me in changing the following type of text:

15-080 3 000 2,868,938,288 5,984,479,335 -52

 

Into

2,868,938,288

5,984,479,335

 

 

So basically a formula or something to only keep the two string values where they contain commas.

Note that the initial string can be longer, but will always have 2 strings which have commas in.

 

Thanks in advance

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Emil_Kos
17 - Castor
17 - Castor

Hi @MorneViljoen,


Text to columns will help you with this task. After you create a row for each position you can simply filter out rows that you don't need. 

 

Emil_Kos_0-1616073394600.png

The output:

 

Emil_Kos_1-1616073420572.png

 

MorneViljoen
7 - Meteor

@Emil_Kos  Thanks, this could work, but one thing I forgot to mention is that I have multiple rows like that (see attached) which would need to be changed. Also added how I think the output should look which I forgot to mention previously.

 

 

Emil_Kos
17 - Castor
17 - Castor

Hi @MorneViljoen,


I have prepared a workflow for you:

 

Emil_Kos_0-1616075365065.png

 

 

The output:

 

Emil_Kos_1-1616075373990.png

 

mpennington
11 - Bolide

I think this RegEx would work:

 

(\d{1,3},.*)\s(\d{1,3},.*)\s|$

 

String Extraction.png

MorneViljoen
7 - Meteor

Thanks this is working great

MorneViljoen
7 - Meteor

@Emil_Kos I tried this one but the column did not format like it should.

But the regex one worked great.

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