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Alex
Alex

Reputation: 12191

Split cell into columns delimited by string and semicolon in Excel

I have got a list of cells in this format:

A1 >> Industry Type: Home & Garden,Import/Export/Wholesale, Location: Auckland,Hawkes Bay,Wellington, PriceRange: $250,000 to $400,000, Order By: Latest Listings

A2 >> Industry Type: Retail General,Technology / Computer / IT,Retail Food,Cafes, Location: Auckland,Wellington, PriceRange: Up to $100,000, Order By: Latest Listings

For both of the two cells, I need to split their label and content. So for the first cell, it would be (assuming the content beside | are two cells):

Industry Type: | Home & Garden,Import/Export/Wholesale, | Location: | Auckland,Hawkes Bay,Wellington, | PriceRange: | $250,000 to $400,000, | Order By: | Latest Listings

How do I split text with both string and semicolon?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 153

Answers (1)

guitarthrower
guitarthrower

Reputation: 5844

If your data is always in the same order (Industry Type, Location, PriceRange and Order By), you could use a series of formulas to extract.

Cell B1 enter:

=LEFT(RIGHT(A1, LEN(A1)-15),FIND(", Location",RIGHT(A1,LEN(A1)-15))-1)

Cell C1 enter:

=LEFT(RIGHT(A1,LEN(A1)-SUM(15,LEN(B1),12)),FIND(", Price",RIGHT(A1,LEN(A1)-SUM(15,LEN(B1),12)))-1)

Cell D1 enter:

=LEFT(RIGHT(A1,LEN(A1)-SUM(15,LEN(B1),12,LEN(C1),14)),FIND(", Order",RIGHT(A1,LEN(A1)-SUM(15,LEN(B1),12,LEN(C1),14)))-1)

Cell E1 enter:

=RIGHT(A1,LEN(A1)-SUM(15,LEN(B1),12,LEN(C1),14,LEN(D1),12))

Then copy all the formulas down for all your information.

It's possible to clean this up a bit with some named ranges, or even VBA, but this will get the job done.

Upvotes: 1

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