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Excel Mid function within substitute

Anonymous
2024-07-13T14:08:55+00:00

Hello,

Bit stuck,

If i want to substute text values using REDUCE / LAMBDA,

but I want to exclude the first x characters before the "/", so I thought I'd use search ;

= LET( s, SEARCH("/",C3)+1,MID(C3,s, LEN(C3)-s) )

But when I put this within the REDUCE lambda, so the cell reference is replaced by x variable
i keep getting an error?

so =REDUCE(C3,CHAR(SEQUENCE(26,1,97,1)),LAMBDA(x,y, x ) ),

would return text in cell C3 =x but when put into search I get an error,

REDUCE(C3,CHAR(SEQUENCE(26,1,97,1)),LAMBDA(x,y, SEARCH("/",x) ))

so is there a way I can exclude all before and including "/" and then just return the remaining numbers?

Richard.

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  1. riny 20,870 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2024-07-14T13:23:13+00:00

    Not sure why you want to go for the complicated REDUCE/LAMBDA method, but that's your choice of course.

    You also need to exclude CHAR(32) and CHAR(45) for space and hyphen.

    This one should work:

    =LET(

    start, SEARCH("/",C3)+1,

    t, MID(C3,start,LEN(C3)-start),

    REDUCE(t, VSTACK(CHAR({32;45}),CHAR(SEQUENCE(26,,97,1))),LAMBDA(x,y, SUBSTITUTE( LOWER(x ),y,"") ))

    )

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-07-14T11:21:50+00:00

    I did state it 'If i want to substitute text values using REDUCE / LAMBDA,,

    also re format could you give an example as I don't know what you mean, I put the formula I used in three different ways, screen shot, just copied and Formulatext, also I did show the result in the second post, I could not show result in the first aa I did not have a one.

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  3. Ashish Mathur 102K Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2024-07-13T23:23:39+00:00

    Hi,

    What exactly are you trying to do? State that upfront first rather than just posting a formula. Also, share data in a format that can be pasted in an MS Excel file and show the expected result clearly. Sharing an image is useless.

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  5. Anonymous
    2024-07-13T14:28:03+00:00

    I have since declared as variable within a let statement; outside of the REDUCE and this seems to work,

    sitll not right as I need to get rid of -

    =LET(start,SEARCH("/",C3)+1, t, MID(C3,start,LEN(C3)-start),

    REDUCE(t, CHAR(SEQUENCE(26,,97,1)),LAMBDA(x,y,

    SUBSTITUTE( LOWER(x ),y,"") )))

    so If there is a better way that would deal this please let me know,

    Richard

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