How to split the data? office 2003

[ravi1982]

How to split the data? office 2003

I have the excel data in the format “O##-alphanumeric character” in a single cell,
How can this be divided in to “O##” and “alphanumeric character”, then placed in separate cells

Example: - Data format “O26-Roughing-operation-3” in one cell,
Requirement “O26” and “roughing operation-3” in separate cells

 

[IRstuff]

The Data | Text to colums should work; it's been in Excel since at least 2000. You can either choose delimited, or fixed position.

TTFN

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[ravi1982]

Sorry slight change in the question
Data format: - LHS-RHS. i.e. (Left hand side)(Hyphen)(Right hand side), important to note that, RHS may contain hyphens

The data should be split and displayed in separate columns, with respect to the first Hyphen, present in the data.

 

[Wecos]

For LHS-RHS in column A:
column B = REPLACE(A1,FIND("-",A1,1),10000,"")
column C = REPLACE(A1,1,FIND("-",A1,1),"")

This will put LHS in column B and RHS in column C. Should work as long as the first hyphen (left to right) is the hyphen seperating the 2 sides, and as long as the LHS is less than 10000 characters. Quick and dirty solution, but no VBA macro involved.

 

[IRstuff]

If your LHS is always the same length, then you can used the fixed position approach to easily split the data.

You can still use hyphen as the limiter, and simply use CONCATENATE to join together the left over RHS bits.

TTFN

FAQ731-376

 

[ravi1982]

Thank you very much, “Wecos” for your reply, you made it look so simple.

Sorry IRstuff, it was my in efficiency in framing a proper question,
The RHS length varies, but I came to know, how fixed position approach works, thank you very much for your replies.