Regex to extract strings in Excel (one or all matches) | excel substring pattern match
Inthistutorial,youlllearnhowtouseregularexpressionsinExceltofindandextractsubstringsmatchingagivenpattern.MicrosoftExcelprovidesanumberoffunctionstoextracttextfromcells[1].Thosefunctionscancopewithmostofstringextractionchallengesinyourworksheets.Most,butnotall.WhentheTextfunctionsstumble,regularexpressionscometorescue.Wait…ExcelhasnoRegExfunctions!True,noinbuiltfunctions.Buttheresnothingthatwouldpreventyoufromusingyourownones:)ExcelVBARegexfunctiontoextractstringsToaddacustomRegexExtractfunc...
In this tutorial, youll learn how to use regular expressions in Excel to find and extract substrings matching a given pattern.
Microsoft Excel provides a number of functions to extract text from cells[1]. Those functions can cope with most of string extraction challenges in your worksheets. Most, but not all. When the Text functions stumble, regular expressions come to rescue. Wait… Excel has no RegEx functions! True, no inbuilt functions. But theres nothing that would prevent you from using your own ones :)
Excel VBA Regex function to extract stringsTo add a custom Regex Extract function to your Excel, paste the following code in the VBA editor. In order to enable regular expressions in VBA, we are using the built-in Microsoft RegExp object.
Public Function RegExpExtract(text As String, pattern As String, Optional instance_num As Integer = 0, Optional match_case As Boolean = True) Dim text_matches() As String Dim matches_index As Integer ...