检查 B 列是否包含 A 列中存在的特定字符串，然后将其从 B 列中的单元格中删除

Question

So I want either an excel function or VBA script that searches through column B for a specific string that exists in column A, and then once there's a match I want to remove that string from the cell in column B and return the rest of the cell contents into column C.

I can't use a simple "find and replace" because, as you can see in the picture, the text in each of the cells is in the form of an ID with an underscore followed by a random number appended to it. And I have around 100,000 rows to search through.

An example table of what I'd like is shown below:

Answer 1

If the values you want to remove all have the pattern TL_xxxx you can use wildcards to replace them.

Ctrl-H to open the Find and Replace dialog, put TL_???? into the Find what box and leave the Replace with box blank.

You may need a second pass to replace two spaces or two line breaks with just one.