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Yasir Yousuf
Yasir Yousuf

Reputation: 43

Extracting a part of a Cell in Excel

I have a particular cell for example

CN=Cloud Test1,OU=Corp,OU=BT-Users,OU=BTATTER,OU=Test,OU=AD UAT,OU=Services,OU=Managed Users,DC=ngco,DC=com

The number of OU= varies with different records, my goal is to only extract anything that has OU= infront of it, so basically I want:

"OU=Corp,OU=BT-Users,OU=BTATTER,OU=Test,OU=AD UAT,OU=Services,OU=Managed Users"

as my output.

Thanks again for your help!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 49

Answers (1)

Scott Craner
Scott Craner

Reputation: 152465

As an Array formula:

=TEXTJOIN(", ",TRUE,IF(LEFT(TRIM(MID(SUBSTITUTE(A1,",",REPT(" ",999)),(ROW(1:99)-1)*999+1,999)),2)="OU",TRIM(MID(SUBSTITUTE(A1,",",REPT(" ",999)),(ROW(1:99)-1)*999+1,999)),""))

Being an array formula, it needs to be confirmed with Ctrl-Shift-Enter instead of Enter when exiting edit mode.

TEXTJOIN() is only available with a subscription to Office 365 Excel.

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If you do not have TEXTJOIN(), put this code in a module attached to the workbook and use the formula as described above:

Function TEXTJOIN(delim As String, skipblank As Boolean, arr)

    Dim d As Long
    Dim c As Long
    Dim arr2()
    Dim t As Long, y As Long
    t = -1
    y = -1
    If TypeName(arr) = "Range" Then
        arr2 = arr.Value
    Else
        arr2 = arr
    End If
    On Error Resume Next
    t = UBound(arr2, 2)
    y = UBound(arr2, 1)
    On Error GoTo 0

    If t >= 0 And y >= 0 Then
        For c = LBound(arr2, 1) To UBound(arr2, 1)
            For d = LBound(arr2, 1) To UBound(arr2, 2)
                If arr2(c, d) <> "" Or Not skipblank Then
                    TEXTJOIN = TEXTJOIN & arr2(c, d) & delim
                End If
            Next d
        Next c
    Else
        For c = LBound(arr2) To UBound(arr2)
            If arr2(c) <> "" Or Not skipblank Then
                TEXTJOIN = TEXTJOIN & arr2(c) & delim
            End If
        Next c
    End If
    TEXTJOIN = Left(TEXTJOIN, Len(TEXTJOIN) - Len(delim))
End Function

Upvotes: 1

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