Comments on: VBA: Remove Characters from Left or Right Side of Variable Length String

By: Jason

Jason — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:44:49 +0000

I am looing at the post for removing text from a string MsgBox Right(Mystring, Len(Mystring) – 1). This places a msgbox on screen but does not change the text in the cell. How do I change the text string in the cell?

By: Gordon

Gordon — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 10:37:38 +0000

@Steve – If I understand what your after, this is easy with Replace:

newString = Replace(oldString, “-”, “”)

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 11:58:13 +0000

sorry, should read.

newstring = Left(oldstring, InStr(oldstring, “-”) – 1) & Right(oldstring, InStr(oldstring, “-”) – 1)

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 11:57:04 +0000

I’m also looking for this function if anyone knows it. I’m having to make do with the following at the moment,

oldstring = “111-111″

newstring = Left(oldstring, InStr(oldstring, “-”) – 1) & Right(oldstring, InStr(oldstring, “-”) + 1)

Its a bit naff and only works if theres 1 instance of “-”.

thanks.

By: Glenn

Glenn — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 02:28:21 +0000

Help if you can
I need to remove the hyphen from the middle of a text string
example
I have 4011-5555
I need 40115555
is there a way to remove the character from a range of cells withou manually removing it

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 21 Feb 2005 21:21:20 +0000

Excel Left Function VS. Excel Mid Function

Excel Left Function wins the GoogleFight

lol

By: ross

ross — Mon, 21 Feb 2005 11:39:55 +0000

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By: Mark

Mark — Sun, 20 Feb 2005 22:10:37 +0000

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By: ross

ross — Sun, 20 Feb 2005 08:25:14 +0000

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By: Mark

Mark — Sat, 19 Feb 2005 15:34:00 +0000

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I'm thinking of tweaking the layout again for the fun of it. -edit-

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