Parsing string data

Katrina Worthy

I have the following data in one column: 01.11101.1002

I would like to parse this into 3 columns:

Column1 = 01

Column2 - 11101

Column3 = 1002

Have tried different ways to parse this out using the Find and left, right function and no luck.

Andrée Starå

Hi @Katrina Worthy

I hope you're well and safe!

Try something like this.

=LEFT([Project ID]@row, 2)
=MID([Project ID]@row, 4, 5)
=RIGHT([Project ID]@row, 4)

Did that work/help?

I hope that helps!

Be safe and have a fantastic week!

Best,

Andrée Starå | Workflow Consultant / CEO @ WORK BOLD

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Andrée Starå

Hi @Katrina Worthy

I hope you're well and safe!

Try something like this.

=LEFT([Project ID]@row, 2)
=MID([Project ID]@row, 4, 5)
=RIGHT([Project ID]@row, 4)

Did that work/help?

I hope that helps!

Be safe and have a fantastic week!

Best,

Andrée Starå | Workflow Consultant / CEO @ WORK BOLD

✅Did my post(s) help or answer your question or solve your problem? Please support the Community by marking it Insightful/Vote Up, Awesome, or/and as the accepted answer. It will make it easier for others to find a solution or help to answer!

Katrina Worthy

That worked. Thank you!

Andrée Starå

@Katrina Worthy

Excellent!

Happy to help!

Sameer Karkhanis

If your pattern is going to be the same that is NN.NNNNN.NNNN for all rows then it is easier and you can use the below,

=MID([Column Name]@row,1,2) for 01 part
=MID([Column Name]@row,4,5,) for 11101 part
=MID([Column Name]@row,10,4) for 1002 part

However, if the pattern will not be consistent but will be delimited by decimals then try below for each of the parts,

=LEFT([Column Name]@row, FIND(".", [Column Name]@row, 1) - 1)

=MID([Column Name]@row, FIND(".", [Column Name]@row) + 1, FIND(".", [Column Name]@row, FIND(".", [Column Name]@row) + 2) - FIND(".", [Column Name]@row) - 1)

=RIGHT([Column Name]@row, LEN([Column Name]@row) - (FIND(".", [Column Name]@row, FIND(".", [Column Name]@row) + 2)))