if text and if number in a cell then.. Please help.

[Teladianium]

Hi all. I have a dilemma I hope you can help me with. I am not great at VBA so bare with me. I need a macro that will look in an individual cell and work out what to do with its contents. There could be a number, or a text and a number. the column is essentially serial numbers. for eg.

item 123
23456789
item 345
serial 56789

I need the macro to look to see if it is an item, a serial or just a number and depending on what it is do something.

eg. "item 123" would be added to a different workbook, the cell value would be split into 2 cells. one column "type" and the other "number". the "serial 56789" would follow the same pattern but to different cells and the number "23456789" would be placed in a cell according to character count.


Hope this makes sense. and thank you

 

[FDibbins]

Just for info...

There could be a number, or a text and a number.

there are only 2 types of data in excel, numeric (only numbers) and text (only text or any combo of text and numbers). So as far as excel is concerned, 123456 is a number, and abc or abc123 or 123abc are all text. That is not to say that telling the difference between 1 type of text is not possible.

If you only have those 2 (or maybe a few more), you could test for =IF(ISNUMBER(SEARCH("item",A1,1)),do-this, do-that)

 

[Teladianium]

Brilliant, thanks Ford.

Wanted to keep it all vba, so I have use vba to insert and remove the formulae and it works great. I had numerical returns for the "do-this, do-that" and will assign the job to the number. thanks again

 

[FDibbins]

Happy to help

You could add an extra test - along the same lines - to test for "serial"

 

[Teladianium]

Thanks,

This is the line I used =IF(ISNUMBER(SEARCH("item",H10,1)),"1", IF(ISNUMBER(SEARCH("serial",H10,1)),"2", "3") ) so I get a 1, 2 or 3 for item, serial, on just a number. Then I use the macro to se the value and then run the correct macro for each one. Im not to good ad vba and usually keep it simple, but learning all the time. Thanks again, a real help

 

[Peter_SSs]

=IF(ISNUMBER(SEARCH("item",H10,1)),"1", IF(ISNUMBER(SEARCH("serial",H10,1)),"2", "3") )

If what you have works and you are happy with it that's fine, but if the only text options are "item" or "serial" before a number then your formula could be simplified to

=IF(LEFT(H10,1)="i",1,IF(LEFT(H10,1)="s",2,3))

 

[FDibbins]

I like Pete's suggestion better, especially if there will only be 2 (of only 1 starting with I and 1 starting with S) to test for. Also, it would be better if you did not wrap the 1, 2, 3 etc in "" otherwise excel will treat them as text