Find and replace text

[bobkap]

As part of an Excel macro, I'm trying to find if a string has a specific word in it and then, if it does, copy the string to another cell without some of the words in the cell.

I've tried this (below) which works ok, BUT if the address you see below is not EXACTLY the same which is often the case with a moved space or a deleted comma etc, the trim function will not work of course. I know there must be a way to do some kind of wildcard solution, but darned if I can figure it out.

Here's what I've tried so far:
grape = Cells(mirow, micol)
If InStr(grape, "San Ramon") Then
bk = Trim(Replace(grape, "(211 Old Crow Canyon Rd#19, San Ramon Ca 94583)", " "))
Cells(mirow, micol +1) = bk

Any help would be very greatly appreciated.

 

[Joe4]

I think we need more more details and examples.
Can you show us a few examples of what you are trying to do, including some records where it is not working correctly?

 

[bobkap]

I think we need more more details and examples.
Can you show us a few examples of what you are trying to do, including some records where it is not working correctly?

Thanks for asking.
Here's an example of two of the records:
[TABLE="width: 722"]
<tbody>[TR]
[TD="width: 722"]Course 8:00am to 3:00pm Nov 16th 2017(211 Old Crow Canyon Rd,#19 San Ramon Ca 94583)
[TABLE="width: 722"]
<tbody>[TR]
[TD="width: 722"]Course 8:00am to 3:00pm Nov 16th 2017(211 Old Crow Canyon Rd, #19 San Ramon Ca 94583)
Here's output I need:
[TABLE="width: 722"]
<tbody>[TR]
[TD="width: 722"]One cell: Course 8:00am to 3:00pm Nov 16th 2017
Next cell one column over: San Ramon

I've figured out how to identify the records I need changed and how to trim down the text and copy over to the correct cells. BUT, only by inputting the exact words I want replaced with nothing (""). As you can see in my two examples, there is a space before the "#" in one but not in the other. So, only one will be chosen. I was hoping that I could use some kind of wildcard code so that I could just use one unique word in my string and then I wouldn't have to tweak my code for every eventuality of an extra space, comma etc.[/TD]
[/TR]
</tbody>[/TABLE]

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</tbody>[/TABLE]
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</tbody>[/TABLE]

 

[Joe4]

Work on having your code standardize the data first.
In this case, if you did a Find/Replace finding a comma and hashtag and replacing with a comma, space, and hashtag, I think that should do it.
Then all your data would be the same.

 

[bobkap]

Awesome thinking. Thanks! I NEVER would have considered that in maybe 100 years.

Regards,
Bob

 

[Joe4]

You are welcome!

Here is another "trick" that may come in handy at home point. Let's say that you had a similar situation except that the first non-space character after the comma is not always a hashtag, and you needed a single space between the comma and the next non-space character. This can be accomplished with a two-part Find/Replace.
First, replace a single comma with a comma and a space.
Then, replace two spaces with a single space.