Can find how to use replace with regex in VBA

Question

I have a table in Excel and one of its columns contains string of the type: 125j, 0j, 12j, etc.

I want the value of the cells (in this column) to be replace by the numbers (ie I want to drop the "j") using the VBA. Here is what I have:

Dim reg As Object
Set reg = CreateObject("VBScript.RegExp")
reg.IgnoreCase = True
reg.Pattern = "^[0-9]+"

If reg.test(Cells(i, 4).Value) Then
    Cells(i, 4).Value = reg.Execute(Cells(i, 4).Value)
End If

But it doesn't work, do anyone knows either how to crrect it or to obtain the same result from another command?

Thank you

Answer 1

The result of the .Execute method is a MatchCollection object. You can use that explicitly:

Dim reg As Object
Dim allMatches As Object

Set reg = CreateObject("VBScript.RegExp")
reg.IgnoreCase = True
reg.Pattern = "^[0-9]+"

If reg.test(cells(i, 4).Value) Then
    Set allMatches = reg.Execute(cells(i, 4).Value)
    cells(i, 4).Value = allMatches(0)
End If

Or implicitly:

    cells(i, 4).Value = reg.Execute(cells(i, 4).Value)(0)