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I did some searching and in openoffice and excel it looks like you can simply add an * at the beginning or end of a character to delete everything before and after it, but in Google spreadsheet this isn't working. Does it support this feature? So if I have:
keyword USD 0078945jg .12 N N 5748 8
And I want to remove USD and everything after it what do I use? I have tried:
USD* and (USD*) with regular expressions checked
But it doesn't work. Any ideas?
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RIGHT+LEN+FIND. There are a few more Google Sheets functions that let you remove the text before a certain character. They are RIGHT, LEN and FIND.
On your computer, open a spreadsheet in Google Sheets. Find and replace. Next to "Find," type the word you want to find, If you want to replace the word, enter the new word next to "Replace with."
How do you use REPLACE in Google Sheets? To use REPLACE in Google Sheets, you simply need to type =REPLACE( into the cell where you want to perform the replacement, and then input the text you want to replace, the text you want to replace it with, and the number of times you want it to occur.
Find and Replace in Google Sheets Select the range where you want to replace values (here, B2:B19), and in the menu, go to Edit > Find and replace (or use the keyboard shortcut CTRL + H).
The * quantifier just needs to be applied to a dot (.) which will match any character.
To clarify: the * wildcard used in certain spreadsheet functions (eg COUNTIF) has a different usage to the * quantifier used in regular expressions.
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In addition to options that would be available in Excel (LEFT + FIND) pointed out by pnuts, you can use a variety of regex tools available in Google Sheets for text searching / manipulation
For example, RegexReplace:
=REGEXREPLACE(A1,"(.*)USD.*","$1")
(.*) <- capture group () with zero or more * of any character .
USD.* <- exact match on USD followed by zero or more * of any character .
$1 <- replace with match in first capture group
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