Tag Archives: Pandigital

Extracting numbers from a string 2: Consecutive numbers at end 3

String Extraction • Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

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.

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1/17 and other pandigitals 9

Alternative Constructions, Esoteric, Extracting Data • Tags: , , , ,

A slightly light-hearted post this, as you may have guessed from the title, though readers might find it moderately interesting, and hopefully some may even contribute to my rather esoteric collection of pandigital numbers in Excel.

This began as a result of seeing (I don’t recall where now, unfortunately) an alternative version of the tried-and-tested construction for returning a number from the end of a mixed string. For example, given the following in A1:

ABCDEF123456

the now-ubiquitous solution:

=0+MID(A1,MIN(FIND({0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9},A1&"0123456789")),LEN(A1))

will correctly return 123456.

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