How to remove characters in a cell that precede a specific hyphen

[brantty]

I have a column of cells that have excess data that needs removed. The #of
characters vary. I'm needing a formula to delete all the characters that
precede the 2nd hyphen as well as delete the 2nd hyphen.

Ex. [ABC-12345-12345]

I need the cell to read [12345]

Can anyone provide a formula that can remove this data?

 

[Max]

Presuming your data in A1 down looks like this:
ABC-12345-12344
ABC-12345-12355
etc

In B1:
=MID(A1,SEARCH("-",A1,SEARCH("-",A1)+1)+1,99)+0
Copy down to return the numbers after the 2nd hyphen as real numbers,
viz:
12344
12355

 

[FSt1]

hi,
you said the number of characters vary. could you supply more examples of
the data?

Regards
FSt1

 

[brantty]

Max,

This works for most of my data but I have some data that has alpha
characters in them where this formula fails. Can you or FSt1 offer an
adaptation to this formula that allows for alpha characters?

Here's a few more examples

ABA-12345-12345
ABA-C12345-C12345
ABC-18L123-18L123
ABC-Q456789-Q456789

Presuming your data in A1 down looks like this:
ABC-12345-12344
ABC-12345-12355
etc

In B1:
=MID(A1,SEARCH("-",A1,SEARCH("-",A1)+1)+1,99)+0
Copy down to return the numbers after the 2nd hyphen as real numbers,
viz:
12344
12355

I have a column of cells that have excess data that needs removed. The #of
characters vary. I'm needing a formula to delete all the characters that
precede the 2nd hyphen as well as delete the 2nd hyphen.

Ex. [ABC-12345-12345]

I need the cell to read [12345]

Can anyone provide a formula that can remove this data?

 

[brantty]

Here's a few more:

Here's a few more examples

ABA-12345M-12345M
ABA-C12345-C12345
ABC-18L123-18L123
ABC-Q456789JJ-Q456789JJ

hi,
you said the number of characters vary. could you supply more examples of
the data?

Regards
FSt1

I have a column of cells that have excess data that needs removed. The #of
characters vary. I'm needing a formula to delete all the characters that
precede the 2nd hyphen as well as delete the 2nd hyphen.

Ex. [ABC-12345-12345]

I need the cell to read [12345]

Can anyone provide a formula that can remove this data?

 

[brantty]

And one more example that has a zero.

ABC-07901-07901

I need the zero to stay with the number, thus the result to be: 07901.

thanks for your help

hi,
you said the number of characters vary. could you supply more examples of
the data?

Regards
FSt1

I have a column of cells that have excess data that needs removed. The #of
characters vary. I'm needing a formula to delete all the characters that
precede the 2nd hyphen as well as delete the 2nd hyphen.

Ex. [ABC-12345-12345]

I need the cell to read [12345]

Can anyone provide a formula that can remove this data?

 

[Ron Rosenfeld]

I have a column of cells that have excess data that needs removed. The #of
characters vary. I'm needing a formula to delete all the characters that
precede the 2nd hyphen as well as delete the 2nd hyphen.

Ex. [ABC-12345-12345]

I need the cell to read [12345]

Can anyone provide a formula that can remove this data?

Assuming that your brackets [ ] are not really part of the value, then:

=MID(A1,FIND(CHAR(1),SUBSTITUTE(A1,"-",CHAR(1),2))+1,255)

will return everything after the 2nd hyphen.

--ron

 

[Dave Peterson]

If you always want to keep the characters after the last (no matter how many)
hyphen...

And you don't have to use a formula, you could use:

Select the range to fix
edit|replace
what: *- (asterisk, hyphen)
with: (leave blank)
replace all

I have a column of cells that have excess data that needs removed. The #of
characters vary. I'm needing a formula to delete all the characters that
precede the 2nd hyphen as well as delete the 2nd hyphen.

Ex. [ABC-12345-12345]

I need the cell to read [12345]

Can anyone provide a formula that can remove this data?

 

[brantty]

Ron, You are awesome. Great work. Its working exactly as I needed.

Ty

I have a column of cells that have excess data that needs removed. The #of
characters vary. I'm needing a formula to delete all the characters that
precede the 2nd hyphen as well as delete the 2nd hyphen.

Ex. [ABC-12345-12345]

I need the cell to read [12345]

Can anyone provide a formula that can remove this data?

Assuming that your brackets [ ] are not really part of the value, then:

=MID(A1,FIND(CHAR(1),SUBSTITUTE(A1,"-",CHAR(1),2))+1,255)

will return everything after the 2nd hyphen.

--ron

 

[T. Valko]

Try this:

=MID(A1,FIND("-",A1,FIND("-",A1)+1)+1,255)


--
Biff
Microsoft Excel MVP

And one more example that has a zero.

ABC-07901-07901

I need the zero to stay with the number, thus the result to be: 07901.

thanks for your help

hi,
you said the number of characters vary. could you supply more examples of
the data?

Regards
FSt1

I have a column of cells that have excess data that needs removed. The
#of
characters vary. I'm needing a formula to delete all the characters
that
precede the 2nd hyphen as well as delete the 2nd hyphen.

Ex. [ABC-12345-12345]

I need the cell to read [12345]

Can anyone provide a formula that can remove this data?

 

[muddan madhu]

Might help u

If A1 = ABA-12345M-12345M

IN B1 =MID(A1,SEARCH("-",A1,SEARCH("-",A1,SEARCH("-",A1)+1))+1,99)

Here's a few more:

Here's a few more examples

ABA-12345M-12345M
ABA-C12345-C12345
ABC-18L123-18L123
ABC-Q456789JJ-Q456789JJ

hi,
you said the number of characters vary. could you supply more examples of
the data?

Regards
FSt1

I have a column of cells that have excess data that needs removed.  The #of
characters vary.  I'm needing a formula to delete all the charactersthat
precede the 2nd hyphen as well as delete the 2nd hyphen.
Ex.   [ABC-12345-12345]
I need the cell to read [12345]
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[Max]

You just need to remove the "+0" from the earlier,
viz use in B1, copied down:
=MID(A1,SEARCH("-",A1,SEARCH("-",A1)+1)+1,99)
(All extracts in col B will be in text)

Anyway, I see you have since received an answer you like

 

[brantty]

Ron,

I found some cells that were different,. Instead of looking for the 2nd
hypen, can you adapt a formula to keep all data after the LAST hyphen?

Ty

I have a column of cells that have excess data that needs removed. The #of
characters vary. I'm needing a formula to delete all the characters that
precede the 2nd hyphen as well as delete the 2nd hyphen.

Ex. [ABC-12345-12345]

I need the cell to read [12345]

Can anyone provide a formula that can remove this data?

Assuming that your brackets [ ] are not really part of the value, then:

=MID(A1,FIND(CHAR(1),SUBSTITUTE(A1,"-",CHAR(1),2))+1,255)

will return everything after the 2nd hyphen.

--ron

 

[T. Valko]

Try this:

=MID(A1,FIND("~~",SUBSTITUTE(A1,"-","~~",LEN(A1)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(A1,"-",""))))+1,255)

Assumes there is at least 1 hypen.


--
Biff
Microsoft Excel MVP

Ron,

I found some cells that were different,. Instead of looking for the 2nd
hypen, can you adapt a formula to keep all data after the LAST hyphen?

Ty

I have a column of cells that have excess data that needs removed. The
#of
characters vary. I'm needing a formula to delete all the characters
that
precede the 2nd hyphen as well as delete the 2nd hyphen.

Ex. [ABC-12345-12345]

I need the cell to read [12345]

Can anyone provide a formula that can remove this data?

Assuming that your brackets [ ] are not really part of the value, then:

=MID(A1,FIND(CHAR(1),SUBSTITUTE(A1,"-",CHAR(1),2))+1,255)

will return everything after the 2nd hyphen.

--ron

 

[muddan madhu]

Use this

=MID(A1,FIND("-",A1)+1,99)

Ron,  

I found some cells that were different,.  Instead of looking for the 2nd
hypen, can you adapt a formula to keep all data after the LAST hyphen?

Ty

I have a column of cells that have excess data that needs removed.  The #of
characters vary.  I'm needing a formula to delete all the characters that
precede the 2nd hyphen as well as delete the 2nd hyphen.
Ex.   [ABC-12345-12345]
I need the cell to read [12345]
Can anyone provide a formula that can remove this data?

Assuming that your brackets  [  ] are not really part of the value, then:

=MID(A1,FIND(CHAR(1),SUBSTITUTE(A1,"-",CHAR(1),2))+1,255)

will return everything after the 2nd hyphen.

--ron- Hide quoted text -

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[Ron Rosenfeld]

Ron, You are awesome. Great work. Its working exactly as I needed.

Ty

Glad to help. Thanks for the feedback.
--ron

 

[Ron Rosenfeld]

Ron,

I found some cells that were different,. Instead of looking for the 2nd
hypen, can you adapt a formula to keep all data after the LAST hyphen?

Ty

Yep. It's just a matter of changing the "2" (for the 2nd hyphen) to a formula
that calculates the number of hyphens:



=MID(A1,FIND(CHAR(1),SUBSTITUTE(A1,"-",CHAR(1),
LEN(A1)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(A1,"-",""))))+1,255)
--ron

 

[Suraj Noorsai]

a1 = ABC-12345-12345

ANSWER IS

=mid(a1,54,5) and
answer = 12345

 

[David Biddulph]

If that is the answer, then I am confused about what the question is?