Excel Regex | excel substring pattern match
Inthistutorial,wellhaveanin-depthlookathowtouseregextomatchstringsinExcel.Whenyouneedtofindacertainvalueinarangeofcells,youdusetheMATCH[1]orXMATCH[2]function.Whenlookingforaspecificstringinacell,theFINDandSEARCHfunctionscomeinhandy.Andhowdoyouknowifacellcontainsinformationthatmatchesagivenpattern?Obviously,byusingregularexpressions.ButoutoftheboxExceldoesnotsupportregexes!Noworries,wellforceitto:)ExcelVBARegexfunctiontomatchstringsAsitsprettyclearfromtheheading,inordertouseregularexpressions...
In this tutorial, well have an in-depth look at how to use regex to match strings in Excel.
When you need to find a certain value in a range of cells, youd use the MATCH[1] or XMATCH[2] function. When looking for a specific string in a cell, the FIND and SEARCH functions come in handy. And how do you know if a cell contains information that matches a given pattern? Obviously, by using regular expressions. But out of the box Excel does not support regexes! No worries, well force it to :)
Excel VBA Regex function to match stringsAs its pretty clear from the heading, in order to use regular expressions in Excel, you need to create your own function. Luckily, Excels VBA has an inbuilt RegExp object, which you can use in your code like shown below:
Public Function RegExpMatch(input_range As Range, pattern As String, Optional match_case As Boolean = True) As Variant Dim arRes() As Variant array to store the results Dim iInputCurRow, iInputCurC...