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		<title>VBA: Extract Number From String</title>
		<link>http://www.automateexcel.com/2008/11/03/vba-extract-number-from-string/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2008 16:16:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kaps</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following function will extract the numerical portion from a string: Function Extract_Number_from_Text(Phrase As String) As Double Dim Length_of_String As Integer Dim Current_Pos As Integer Dim Temp As String Length_of_String = Len(Phrase) Temp = "" For Current_Pos = 1 To Length_of_String If (Mid(Phrase, Current_Pos, 1) = "-") Then Temp = Temp &#38; Mid(Phrase, Current_Pos, 1) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Find the nth Word in a String</title>
		<link>http://www.automateexcel.com/2008/10/31/find-the-nth-word-in-a-string/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2008 15:54:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kaps</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following function will find the nth word in a string: Function Find_nth_word(Phrase As String, n As Integer) As String Dim Current_Pos As Long Dim Length_of_String As Integer Dim Current_Word_No As Integer Find_nth_word = "" Current_Word_No = 1 'Remove Leading Spaces Phrase = Trim(Phrase) Length_of_String = Len(Phrase) For Current_Pos = 1 To Length_of_String If (Current_Word_No [...]]]></description>
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		<title>VBA and Vlookup: Find occurence of string</title>
		<link>http://www.automateexcel.com/2008/09/30/vba-and-vlookup-find-occurence-of-string/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 14:40:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kaps</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The standard Vlookup function can be used to find a value within a table: And we would use VLOOKUP like so: VLOOKUP(A1:10,”Dog”,2,FALSE) to give the value 30. However, in this list we see that Dog occurs 3 times. The standard VLOOKUP function will only return the value associated with the first item in this list. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>VBA Function To Calculate Number of Words in a String</title>
		<link>http://www.automateexcel.com/2008/09/20/vba-function-to-calculate-number-of-words-in-a-string/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Sep 2008 08:19:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kaps</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following VBA function counts the number of words in a string: Function Number_of_Words(Text_String As String) As Integer 'Function counts the number of words in a string 'by looking at each character and seeing whether it is a space or not Number_of_Words = 0 Dim String_Length As Integer Dim Current_Character As Integer String_Length = Len(Text_String) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>VBA: Subroutine to Reverse a String</title>
		<link>http://www.automateexcel.com/2008/09/13/vba-subroutine-to-reverse-a-string/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Sep 2008 17:58:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kaps</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The VBA Routine below allows the user to enter a string, and is then presented with the same string backwards. For example “Monday” becomes “yadnoM”:- Option Explicit Private Sub CommandButton1_Click() 'Define Variables Dim Original_String As String Dim Reversed_String As String Dim Next_Char As String Dim Length As Integer Dim Pos As Integer 'Get the Original [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Excel String Functions</title>
		<link>http://www.automateexcel.com/2008/08/23/excel-string-functions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Aug 2008 12:57:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kaps</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Excel has an abundance of string functions that can be used to manipulate data. In this article we will look at how to convert somebody’s full name into their initial and surname. So for example Mark Doppler becomes M Doppler. Lets say that we have a series of names like so: It is possible to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>VBA: Remove Characters from Left or Right Side of Variable Length String</title>
		<link>http://www.automateexcel.com/2005/02/18/excel_vba_remove_n_characters_from_left/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Feb 2005 13:19:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you always know the length of a string, it&#8217;s easy to remove characters from it. Example: If you have a string that is 10 characters and you want to remove 1 character from the Left side, simply return the right 9 characters: msgbox Right(Mystring, 9) This doesn&#8217;t work for a variable length string, or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>VBA: Loop Through a String</title>
		<link>http://www.automateexcel.com/2005/01/11/excel_vba_loop_through_a_string_1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jan 2005 13:03:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You can perform logic on, or return individual characters from a string in VBA by looping through the string. The following is an example of looping through a string using a For&#8230;Next Loop, and returning each character in a msgbox. Sub LoopThroughString() Dim Counter As Integer Dim MyString As String MyString = "AutomateExcel" 'define string [...]]]></description>
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		<title>VBA: Loop Through a String</title>
		<link>http://www.automateexcel.com/2004/11/10/excel_vba_loop_through_a_string/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Nov 2004 06:45:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here are a couple ways of looping through a string, or reading a string from a Macro. To use either example, simply replace the text that the variable named LookInHere is equal to. There&#8217;s a comment in the code to give you a hint. Read Every Character in a String This example reads every character [...]]]></description>
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		<title>VBA: Add Spaces to a String &#8211; Space()</title>
		<link>http://www.automateexcel.com/2004/10/06/excel_vba_add_spaces_to_a_string_space/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Oct 2004 20:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A common way to add spaces to a string with VBA is to use blank spaces between quotation marks. The following example adds ten spaces between the word &#8220;Hello&#8221; and &#8220;World&#8221;: Sub AddSpaces() Dim MyString As String MyString = "Hello" &#38; "          " &#38; "World" MsgBox MyString End Sub A more intuitive way to add spaces [...]]]></description>
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