Excel：从文本中提取具有特定格式的数字

Question

I need to extract a specific number out of multiple cells that contain text and numbers. The texts that I need to scan look more or less like that:

"Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet 5, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam 10%, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure 20% dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident 10.54% , sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum"

I need to extract the value in bold, which varies across texts, but is always a percentage, with two digits after the decimal point. There are other numbers and percentages in the text. To be specific: I need a way to extract only values with two digits after the decimal point out of text. Is there any way to achieve that with an excel function?

Answer 1

With normal Excel, I have no idea. With VBA, you can use an UDF to do this.

This code will get always the last % in text. It will get all digits. And it will return the % value as string . If you need it as number, then the UDF needs to be modified.

Public Function EXTRACT_LAST_PERCENT(ByVal vThisCell As Range) As String

If vThisCell.Count <> 1 Then
    EXTRACT_LAST_PERCENT = "This UDF only works with 1 cell"
    Exit Function
End If


Dim STR As String

STR = vThisCell.Value

Dim MyValues As Variant

MyValues = Split(STR, "%")

Dim i As Byte

'% target will be always the last, according to OP
'so it will be in Ubound-1 always
'we split again using blanks as delimiter

STR = MyValues(UBound(MyValues) - 1)

Erase MyValues

MyValues = Split(STR, " ")

'now % target is in Ubound


EXTRACT_LAST_PERCENT = MyValues(UBound(MyValues))

Erase MyValues

End Function

This is what I get:

Hope you can adapt this to your needs.