Excel-将多列分隔符的字符串合并为一个

Question

I have thousands of rows in the below format:

Image ID    Image Title       Image Caption

4867        Bedroom           Bedroom
4866|4865   Office|Kitchen    Office|Kitchen

I need to take related strings from these columns and combine them into a fourth column in this format:

Image ID    Image Title       Image Caption     Attachments

4867        Bedroom           Bedroom           {"image_attachments":[{"id":"4867","fields":{"title":"Bedroom","caption":"Bedroom"}}]}
4866|4865   Office|Kitchen    Office|Kitchen    {"image_attachments":[{"id":"4866","fields":{"title":"Office","caption":"Office"}}]},{"image_attachments":[{"id":"4865","fields":{"title":"Kitchen","caption":"Kitchen"}}]}

Can someone suggest the best way to accomplish this please? Many thanks.

Answer 1

You can use left/right/concatenate to accomplish this. It'll be a bit time consuming to match your syntax exactly, but here's a sample. Let me know if you get stuck. Notice that in order to include a double quote in a string in Excel, you use """ :

=CONCATENATE("""{image_attachments"":[{""",LEFT(A3,4))

Assuming that A3 is the cell containing the first Image ID, then the output is as follows:

"{image_attachments":[{"4867

After you finish this for the case where only one Image ID is in the cell, I'd wrap the entire thing in =IF(LEN(A3=4,DO THIS,IF(LEN(A3=9,DO THIS CODE),"")