There is any function in EXCEL which is separate text from number?

Question

I mean for example in A1: 123b maybe the best put 123 to B and "b" for C column. Any function for that?

Answer 1

If the numbers are always at the beginning, then, for the numbers:

=LOOKUP(9.9E+307,--LEFT(A1,ROW(INDIRECT("1:20"))),LEFT(A1,ROW(INDIRECT("1:20"))))

and for the letters:

   =MID(A1,LEN(LOOKUP(9.9E+307,--LEFT(A1,ROW(INDIRECT("1:20"))),LEFT(A1,ROW(INDIRECT("1:20")))))+1,20)

The "20"'s in the formulas just needs to be some number that is larger than the length of the longest string you might be processing.

Answer 2

If you just want to get the number part of the value (assumed to be in A1), use the array formula (control-shift-enter after entering the formula):

=VALUE(LEFT(A1,MIN(IFERROR(SEARCH({"a","b","c","d","e","f","g","h","i","j","k","l","m","n","o","p","q","r","s","t","u","v","w","x","y","z"},A1),LEN(A1)))-1))

The formula does the following:

• for each letter, find the first index of the character in the string
• if the string is not found, assume the value is the length (not found)
• find the minimum of the indices
• take the substring starting from the first character and ending just before the first letter
• get the numeric value for the text (which should be all-digits at this point)

To get the text part:

=RIGHT(A1,LEN(A1)+1-MIN(IFERROR(SEARCH({"a","b","c","d","e","f","g","h","i","j","k","l","m","n","o","p","q","r","s","t","u","v","w","x","y","z"},A1),LEN(A1))))