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Splitting out text from numbers

Ahasan13
7 - Meteor

Hi All,

 

I am trying to split out numbers and text and I got it by using RegEx and under Regular expression, I put in "(\d+)\s(.+)" 

 

 

Screen shot of Original                                                                                 

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Screen shot of after applying RegEx

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My question is how do I get that "?" out? Thanks in advance for all the help!

 

 

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binuacs
21 - Polaris

@Ahasan13 Can you try (\d+)\s\.(.*)

 

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Ahasan13
7 - Meteor

Does not work 

binuacs
21 - Polaris

@Ahasan13 I guess then it is not a period character, some non-ascii character. Can you try the below formula

 

(\d+)\s[^A-Za-z](.*)

 

 

Christina_H
14 - Magnetar

Maybe try (\d+)\s.\s(.+)

However if all your data is in the same format, you could also use text to columns or just formulas, e.g. Left([Account Name],4) and Right([Account Name], Length([Account Name]-7)

Ahasan13
7 - Meteor

This worked for me thank you! Also going to post another question regarding separating out things like this 

 

"Total Assets → Current Assets → Cash" 

 

Some of them have 2 arrows and some have more. I tried using the same formula but I guess it doesn't work for that. 

Christina_H
14 - Magnetar

I don't know how it would work with RegEx, but you can copy the arrow into a Text to Columns tool and it works just fine

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Ahasan13
7 - Meteor

thank you this worked!

binuacs
21 - Polaris

@Ahasan13 Another option to replace the non-printable characters 

 

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