Pull out numbers from a duration string

A customer of ours is going to be providing data to us daily in the format of "Install Duration" I want to pull only the time out of that so I can get an average. I basically am just trying to remove "hour" or "hours"

I could do a =left() formula, but the number of decimals can change.


Im certain this is an easier formula, I just could use some help with it!


Answers

  • Paul Newcome
    Paul Newcome ✭✭✭✭✭✭

    TO be able to pull an average, you also need numerical data. The LEFT function only outputs text strings.


    First we use the LEFT with a FIND function to find the space and tell the left function to pull up to that.

    =LEFT([Install Duration]@row, FIND(" ", [Install Duration]@row) - 1)


    Then we wrap it in a VALUE function so that the output is numerical data.

    =VALUE(LEFT(.......))

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