Find where the 2nd, 3rd, 4th space is?

Jas · Nov 21st 2003

I have a text string with four spaces in it. I can find the location of the first space easy enough.

=FIND(" ",B1) (returns where the first space is)

Second space is a little trickier, but I figured out a way...

=FIND(" ",B1)+FIND(" ",RIGHT(B1,LEN(B1)-FIND(" ",B1)))

I'm hoping there's an easier way that I don't know of... because taking this to the 3rd & 4th space is gonna be really ugly.

Any ideas?

Pesky Weasel · Nov 21st 2003

Jas,

for the example below text string is in A4

B4 =SEARCH(" ",$A4,1)
C4 onwards =SEARCH(" ",$A4,B4)+B4
The formula in B4 can be dragged across columns until you have enough columns for spaces.

This could be modified a little to eliminate error values appearing by using an IF statement.

Hope that helps
Weasel

Jas · Nov 22nd 2003

That's a similar mechanism to what I'm using... the problem is I need to be able to start to finish return what place the 4th space is in without using multiple cells.

So far, I'm up to this formula:

=FIND(" ",B1,FIND(" ",B1,FIND(" ",B1,FIND(" ",B1)+1)+1)+1)

I was just hoping there was something a little cleaner... as I'm using nested versions of that formula combined with LEFTs, RIGHTs, and LENs to pull out the strings that are delineated by those spaces.

What's fun is my file actually uses more than one space between fields, so it actually has TRIMs mixed throughout the whole thing. My formulae are getting really LONG and confusing. :o I was hoping there was a shortcut I didn't know about.

Ah, well, I'm slowly getting it to work!

Example (pulling third text string):

=RIGHT(LEFT(TRIM(B1),FIND(" ",TRIM(B1),FIND(" ",TRIM(B1),FIND(" ",TRIM(B1))+1)+1)),FIND(" ",TRIM(B1),FIND(" ",TRIM(B1),FIND(" ",TRIM(B1))+1)+1)-(FIND(" ",TRIM(B1),FIND(" ",TRIM(B1))+1)))

Thanks for your help!

Anonymous · Nov 22nd 2003

These are a little shorter ... I think.

1st space:

=FIND(" ",TRIM($B1))

2nd space:

=FIND(" ",TRIM($B1),FIND(" ",TRIM($B1))+1)

3rd:

=FIND(" ",TRIM($B1),FIND(" ",TRIM($B1),FIND(" ",TRIM($B1))+1)+1)

4th:

=FIND(" ",TRIM($B1),FIND(" ",TRIM($B1),FIND(" ",TRIM($B1),FIND(" ",TRIM($B1))+1)+1)+1)

Richie(UK) · Nov 22nd 2003

Hi All,

How about a simple UDF?

I've only tested this briefly so it may need some tweaking ;;) . The UDF:

Code

Function FindPosition(strMain As String, strFind As String, lItem As Long) As Long
'find the position in the main string of the lItem'th occurence of the search string


    Dim lPos As Long, lCount As Long
    
    FindPosition = 0
    'default
    If Len(strMain) &gt; 0 And Len(strFind) &gt; 0 Then
        lPos = 1
        Do
            lPos = InStr(lPos, strMain, strFind, vbBinaryCompare)
            If lPos &gt; 0 Then
                lCount = lCount + 1
                If lCount = lItem Then FindPosition = lPos
                lPos = lPos + 1
            End If
        Loop While lPos &gt; 0 And Not lCount &gt; lItem
    End If
    
End Function

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Either call from a sub like this:

Code

Sub Test()
    Const strMain As String = "A string with four spaces"
    Const strFind As String = " "
    Const lPos As Long = 4
    MsgBox "Item " & lPos & " of the string " & "'" & strFind & "'" & _
        " within the string " & "'" & strMain & "'" & " is at position : " _
        & FindPosition(strMain, strFind, lPos)
End Sub

or within a spreadsheet like this:

EDIT: Removed corrupt pic

HTH

Richie(UK) · Nov 22nd 2003

Trying again with the pic ;;)

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EDIT : Good catch re the spaces Andy (see below)

**Andy Pope** · Nov 22nd 2003

Hi Jas,

Here is another alternative.
It uses the SUBSTITUTE function to place a characters, one that is not in the original text, at the Nth position.
The find can then be used to locate the single character.

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BORDER-TOP: #000000 0.5pt solid; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 0.5pt solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #d4d0c8" align=middle width="2%"><BR></TD><TD style="BORDER-RIGHT: #000000 0.5pt solid; BORDER-TOP: #000000 0.5pt solid; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: menu; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #d4d0c8" align=middle><CENTER>A</CENTER></TD><TD style="BORDER-RIGHT: #000000 0.5pt solid; BORDER-TOP: #000000 0.5pt solid; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: menu; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #d4d0c8" align=middle><CENTER>B</CENTER></TD><TD style="BORDER-RIGHT: #000000 0.5pt solid; BORDER-TOP: #000000 0.5pt solid; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: menu; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #d4d0c8" align=middle><CENTER>C</CENTER></TD><TD style="BORDER-RIGHT: #000000 0.5pt solid; BORDER-TOP: #000000 0.5pt solid; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: menu; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #d4d0c8" align=middle><CENTER>D</CENTER></TD><TD style="BORDER-RIGHT: #000000 0.5pt solid; BORDER-TOP: #000000 0.5pt solid; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: menu; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #d4d0c8" align=middle><CENTER>E</CENTER></TD></TR><TR><TD style="BORDER-TOP: #000000 0.5pt solid; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 0.5pt solid; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: menu; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #d4d0c8" align=middle width="2%"><CENTER>1</CENTER></TD><TD style="BORDER-RIGHT: #d4d0c8 0.5pt solid; BORDER-TOP: #000000 0.5pt solid; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; VERTICAL-ALIGN: bottom; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 0.5pt solid; COLOR: #000000; BORDER-BOTTOM: #d4d0c8 0.5pt solid; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff; TEXT-ALIGN: left">Main String</TD><TD style="BORDER-RIGHT: #d4d0c8 0.5pt solid; BORDER-TOP: #000000 0.5pt solid; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; VERTICAL-ALIGN: bottom; COLOR: #000000; BORDER-BOTTOM: #d4d0c8 0.5pt solid; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff; TEXT-ALIGN: left">Nth</TD><TD style="BORDER-RIGHT: #d4d0c8 0.5pt solid; BORDER-TOP: #000000 0.5pt solid; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; VERTICAL-ALIGN: bottom; COLOR: #000000; BORDER-BOTTOM: #d4d0c8 0.5pt solid; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff; TEXT-ALIGN: left">Pos</TD><TD style="BORDER-RIGHT: #d4d0c8 0.5pt solid; BORDER-TOP: #000000 0.5pt solid; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; VERTICAL-ALIGN: bottom; COLOR: #000000; BORDER-BOTTOM: #d4d0c8 0.5pt solid; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff; TEXT-ALIGN: right"> </TD><TD style="BORDER-RIGHT: #000000 0.5pt solid; BORDER-TOP: #000000 0.5pt solid; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; VERTICAL-ALIGN: bottom; COLOR: #000000; BORDER-BOTTOM: #d4d0c8 0.5pt solid; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff; TEXT-ALIGN: left">How it works</TD></TR><TR><TD style="BORDER-TOP: #000000 0.5pt solid; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 0.5pt solid; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: menu; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #d4d0c8" align=middle width="2%"><CENTER>2</CENTER></TD><TD style="BORDER-RIGHT: #d4d0c8 0.5pt solid; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; VERTICAL-ALIGN: bottom; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 0.5pt solid; COLOR: #000000; BORDER-BOTTOM: #d4d0c8 0.5pt solid; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff; TEXT-ALIGN: left">A#string#with#four#spaces</TD><TD style="BORDER-RIGHT: #d4d0c8 0.5pt solid; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; VERTICAL-ALIGN: bottom; COLOR: #000000; BORDER-BOTTOM: #d4d0c8 0.5pt solid; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff; TEXT-ALIGN: right">1</TD><TD style="BORDER-RIGHT: #d4d0c8 0.5pt solid; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; VERTICAL-ALIGN: bottom; COLOR: #000000; BORDER-BOTTOM: #d4d0c8 0.5pt solid; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff; TEXT-ALIGN: right"><A onclick="document.formFb543420.sltNb142651.options[0].selected=true; document.formFb543420.txbFb965317.value = document.formFb543420.sltNb142651.value;" href="#javascript:void(0);">2</FONT></A></TD><TD style="BORDER-RIGHT: #d4d0c8 0.5pt solid; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; VERTICAL-ALIGN: bottom; COLOR: #000000; BORDER-BOTTOM: #d4d0c8 0.5pt solid; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff; TEXT-ALIGN: right"> </TD><TD style="BORDER-RIGHT: #000000 0.5pt solid; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; VERTICAL-ALIGN: bottom; COLOR: #000000; BORDER-BOTTOM: #d4d0c8 0.5pt solid; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff; TEXT-ALIGN: left"><A onclick="document.formFb543420.sltNb142651.options[1].selected=true; document.formFb543420.txbFb965317.value = document.formFb543420.sltNb142651.value;" href="#javascript:void(0);">A~string#with#four#spaces</FONT></A></TD></TR><TR><TD style="BORDER-TOP: #000000 0.5pt solid; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 0.5pt solid; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: menu; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #d4d0c8" align=middle width="2%"><CENTER>3</CENTER></TD><TD style="BORDER-RIGHT: #d4d0c8 0.5pt solid; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; VERTICAL-ALIGN: bottom; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 0.5pt solid; COLOR: #000000; BORDER-BOTTOM: #d4d0c8 0.5pt solid; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff; TEXT-ALIGN: left">A#string#with#four#spaces</TD><TD style="BORDER-RIGHT: #d4d0c8 0.5pt solid; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; VERTICAL-ALIGN: bottom; COLOR: #000000; BORDER-BOTTOM: #d4d0c8 0.5pt solid; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff; TEXT-ALIGN: right">2</TD><TD style="BORDER-RIGHT: #d4d0c8 0.5pt solid; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; VERTICAL-ALIGN: bottom; COLOR: #000000; BORDER-BOTTOM: #d4d0c8 0.5pt solid; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff; TEXT-ALIGN: right"><A onclick="document.formFb543420.sltNb142651.options[2].selected=true; document.formFb543420.txbFb965317.value = document.formFb543420.sltNb142651.value;" href="#javascript:void(0);">9</FONT></A></TD><TD style="BORDER-RIGHT: #d4d0c8 0.5pt solid; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; VERTICAL-ALIGN: bottom; COLOR: #000000; BORDER-BOTTOM: #d4d0c8 0.5pt solid; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff; TEXT-ALIGN: right"> </TD><TD style="BORDER-RIGHT: #000000 0.5pt solid; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; VERTICAL-ALIGN: bottom; COLOR: #000000; BORDER-BOTTOM: #d4d0c8 0.5pt solid; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff; TEXT-ALIGN: left"><A onclick="document.formFb543420.sltNb142651.options[3].selected=true; document.formFb543420.txbFb965317.value = document.formFb543420.sltNb142651.value;" href="#javascript:void(0);">A#string~with#four#spaces</FONT></A></TD></TR><TR><TD style="BORDER-TOP: #000000 0.5pt solid; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 0.5pt solid; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: menu; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #d4d0c8" align=middle width="2%"><CENTER>4</CENTER></TD><TD style="BORDER-RIGHT: #d4d0c8 0.5pt solid; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; VERTICAL-ALIGN: bottom; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 0.5pt solid; COLOR: #000000; BORDER-BOTTOM: #d4d0c8 0.5pt solid; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff; TEXT-ALIGN: left">A#string#with#four#spaces</TD><TD style="BORDER-RIGHT: #d4d0c8 0.5pt solid; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; VERTICAL-ALIGN: bottom; COLOR: #000000; BORDER-BOTTOM: #d4d0c8 0.5pt solid; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff; TEXT-ALIGN: right">3</TD><TD style="BORDER-RIGHT: #d4d0c8 0.5pt solid; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; VERTICAL-ALIGN: bottom; COLOR: #000000; BORDER-BOTTOM: #d4d0c8 0.5pt solid; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff; TEXT-ALIGN: right"><A onclick="document.formFb543420.sltNb142651.options[4].selected=true; document.formFb543420.txbFb965317.value = document.formFb543420.sltNb142651.value;" href="#javascript:void(0);">14</FONT></A></TD><TD style="BORDER-RIGHT: #d4d0c8 0.5pt solid; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; VERTICAL-ALIGN: bottom; COLOR: #000000; BORDER-BOTTOM: #d4d0c8 0.5pt solid; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff; TEXT-ALIGN: right"> </TD><TD style="BORDER-RIGHT: #000000 0.5pt solid; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; VERTICAL-ALIGN: bottom; COLOR: #000000; BORDER-BOTTOM: #d4d0c8 0.5pt solid; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff; TEXT-ALIGN: left"><A onclick="document.formFb543420.sltNb142651.options[5].selected=true; document.formFb543420.txbFb965317.value = document.formFb543420.sltNb142651.value;" href="#javascript:void(0);">A#string#with~four#spaces</FONT></A></TD></TR><TR><TD style="BORDER-TOP: #000000 0.5pt solid; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 0.5pt solid; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: menu; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #d4d0c8" align=middle width="2%"><CENTER>5</CENTER></TD><TD style="BORDER-RIGHT: #d4d0c8 0.5pt solid; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; VERTICAL-ALIGN: bottom; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 0.5pt solid; COLOR: #000000; BORDER-BOTTOM: #d4d0c8 0.5pt solid; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff; TEXT-ALIGN: left">A#string#with#four#spaces</TD><TD style="BORDER-RIGHT: #d4d0c8 0.5pt solid; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; VERTICAL-ALIGN: bottom; COLOR: #000000; BORDER-BOTTOM: #d4d0c8 0.5pt solid; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff; TEXT-ALIGN: right">4</TD><TD style="BORDER-RIGHT: #d4d0c8 0.5pt solid; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; VERTICAL-ALIGN: bottom; COLOR: #000000; BORDER-BOTTOM: #d4d0c8 0.5pt solid; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff; TEXT-ALIGN: right"><A onclick="document.formFb543420.sltNb142651.options[6].selected=true; document.formFb543420.txbFb965317.value = document.formFb543420.sltNb142651.value;" href="#javascript:void(0);">19</FONT></A></TD><TD style="BORDER-RIGHT: #d4d0c8 0.5pt solid; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; VERTICAL-ALIGN: bottom; COLOR: #000000; BORDER-BOTTOM: #d4d0c8 0.5pt solid; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff; TEXT-ALIGN: right"> </TD><TD style="BORDER-RIGHT: #000000 0.5pt solid; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; VERTICAL-ALIGN: bottom; COLOR: #000000; BORDER-BOTTOM: #d4d0c8 0.5pt solid; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff; TEXT-ALIGN: left"><A onclick="document.formFb543420.sltNb142651.options[7].selected=true; document.formFb543420.txbFb965317.value = document.formFb543420.sltNb142651.value;" href="#javascript:void(0);">A#string#with#four~spaces</FONT></A></TD></TR><TR><TD style="BORDER-RIGHT: #000000 0.5pt solid; BORDER-TOP: #808080 0.5pt solid; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 0.5pt solid; BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 0.5pt solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #d4d0c8" colSpan=6><TABLE width="100%" align=left VALIGN="TOP"><TBODY><TR><TD style="BORDER-RIGHT: #000000 0.5pt solid; BORDER-TOP: #808080 0.5pt solid; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 0.5pt solid; WIDTH: 120pt; BORDER-BOTTOM: #000000 0.5pt solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" align=left><U>Sheet1</U></TD><TD> </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><BR><FONT color=#339966 size=1>[HtmlMaker 2.41] </FONT><FONT color=#339966 size=1>To see the formula in the cells just click on the cells hyperlink or click the Name box</FONT><BR><FONT color=red size=1>PLEASE DO NOT QUOTE THIS TABLE IMAGE ON SAME PAGE! OTHEWISE, ERROR OF JavaScript OCCUR.</FONT></CENTER>

For the sake of displaying this via HTML Maker I have had to use a # instead of a space.
Also the CHAR(126) ~ would normally be the CHAR(127) , although any character not in the original text will do.

Cheers
Andy

Jas · Nov 24th 2003

Those are some nice solutions! Thanks to all... I'm going to hit the books on UDFs to see if I can learn more about how this works so I can do more on my own... I'm thinking a UDF that pulls the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, or 5th string would be cool. Thanks for the nudge in the right direction! And Andy - your solution is immediately useable without me hitting the books hard. Gracias! :wink1:

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