从单元格中提取值

Question

I have the following problem. I have cells with values such as this:

    y
1 Alert, Alert
2 Unresponsive, Alert
3 
4 Alert

I used the following function to try to extract the first word from each cell

=IF(Y2="", "Blank",LEFT(Y2,(FIND(",",Y2)-1)))

It works BUT I get #value! for cells like y4. If there is no comma, I just want the whole word.

Any thoughts? Thanks for your time!

Answer 1

The following function will extract the first segment of a list that is delimited with a comma and then a space.

=LEFT(A1,SEARCH(", ",A1)-1)

Where A1 is the cell you want to extract the value from, and the list is delimited with a comma and a space.

If you had this in a cell:

y1 Alert, Alert 2 Unresponsive, Alert 3 4 Alert

This function would return y1 Alert .

Now to add on your other criteria: display "Blank" if the cell is empty and return the entire word if there is only one entry.

=IF(A1="","Blank",IFERROR(LEFT(A1,SEARCH(", ",A1)-1),A1))

You can read more about IFERROR as well as SEARCH

Answer 2

也许：

=IF(Y2="","Blank", IFERROR(LEFT(Y2,FIND(",",Y2)-1),Y2))