Here's an explanation to a similar but not exactly same formula. I'm sure you can decipher your equation once you go through the link below.
http://www.excelfox.com/forum/f13/extract-number-alphanumeric-text-186/ Regards, Sam Mathai Chacko On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 8:15 PM, Chris <christoph...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Everybody, > > I thought I had somewhat advanced Excel skills but then the following made > me feel like I'm back in the beginners' group: Usually people ask here how > to achieve something in Excel or VBA. I actually have the answer but I > would like to understand it. This morning, I needed a quick way to scrap > all non-numeric characters out of the contents of a cell. I wrote a quick > VBA function that did the job. Then I started to get curious if Excel > offers any worksheet function that would have done this job for me. I > learned that this doesn't exist but that the following (data cell is A1 and > you'd paste this into B2) > > > =IF(A1="","",SUMPRODUCT(MID(0&A1,LARGE(INDEX(ISNUMBER(--MID(A1,ROW($1:$25),1))*ROW($1:$25),0),ROW($1:$25))+1,1)*10^ROW($1:$25)/10)) > > does exactly what I'm trying to do. Granted, it's a bit more complex than > a VBA macro but I'd still like to understand exactly what this line above > does. I tried to decipher it but didn't have much success. Can anybody > enlighten me? Maybe step by step? > > Thanks in advance. Appreciate all your help I get on this board. > Christoph > > -- > Are you =EXP(E:RT) or =NOT(EXP(E:RT)) in Excel? And do you wanna be? It’s > =TIME(2,DO:IT,N:OW) ! Join official Facebook page of this forum @ > https://www.facebook.com/discussexcel > > FORUM RULES > > 1) Use concise, accurate thread titles. Poor thread titles, like Please > Help, Urgent, Need Help, Formula Problem, Code Problem, and Need Advice > will not get quick attention or may not be answered. > 2) Don't post a question in the thread of another member. > 3) Don't post questions regarding breaking or bypassing any security > measure. > 4) Acknowledge the responses you receive, good or bad. > 5) Jobs posting is not allowed. > 6) Sharing copyrighted material and their links is not allowed. > > NOTE : Don't ever post confidential data in a workbook. Forum owners and > members are not responsible for any loss. > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MS EXCEL AND VBA MACROS" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to excel-macros+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to excel-macros@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/excel-macros?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- Sam Mathai Chacko -- Are you =EXP(E:RT) or =NOT(EXP(E:RT)) in Excel? And do you wanna be? It’s =TIME(2,DO:IT,N:OW) ! Join official Facebook page of this forum @ https://www.facebook.com/discussexcel FORUM RULES 1) Use concise, accurate thread titles. Poor thread titles, like Please Help, Urgent, Need Help, Formula Problem, Code Problem, and Need Advice will not get quick attention or may not be answered. 2) Don't post a question in the thread of another member. 3) Don't post questions regarding breaking or bypassing any security measure. 4) Acknowledge the responses you receive, good or bad. 5) Jobs posting is not allowed. 6) Sharing copyrighted material and their links is not allowed. NOTE : Don't ever post confidential data in a workbook. Forum owners and members are not responsible for any loss. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MS EXCEL AND VBA MACROS" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to excel-macros+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to excel-macros@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/excel-macros?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
