This is the second in a series of discussions on the techniques available for extracting numbers from an alphanumeric string. In the first instalment in this series (which can be found here) I looked at extracting consecutive numbers which appear at the start of the string, e.g. 123ABC456.
In this post I will concentrate on techniques for extracting numbers from a string where:
- The numbers are consecutive
- The consecutive string of numbers is found at the very end of the string
- The desired result is to have those consecutive numbers returned to a single cell
As previously, for each of the given solutions, we need to test its soundness in two separate cases: firstly, where there are no numbers elsewhere in the string, e.g. ABC456 and secondly, where there are some numbers elsewhere in the string, either at the start, e.g. 123ABC456, or in the middle, e.g. ABC123DEF456.