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Macro / VBA to extract number from character string
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Paul van Zijl

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June 6, 2017 - 3:57 pm
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Hi,

I have some information that has been retrieved from mag swipe reads (membership cards) where only a certain part of the information relates to the membership number. A sample of the swipe is shown below 

%B90360027238976565^ /^0000720100100329?

What I want to do is separate out the numbers shown in red. Every line has the same length of characters, with the same 8 digits being the required info.

Any help/advice would be much appreciated.

 

thanks and regards

Paul

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Hi Paul

You can try a formula instead of a macro. Assuming the info is in cell A1, in cell B1 enter

=MID(A1,11,8)

Copy down to as many rows as needed.

See if this helps.

Sunny

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thanks Sunny.

That's perfect. 

 

cheers, Paul

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