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has VBA any good mechanism for checking, if the content of a given Excel Cell matches a specific regex?
In my case i want to know, if some cell has the format
m
m2
m1234
In fact, there’s just one defined letter at the beginning, followed by a not specified amount of numbers.
How do I put this into an If-Else construct?
If Doc.Cells(1,1).Value ..... ???
greets, poeschlorn
You can get at the VBScript RegExp objects via Tools->References & adding “Microsoft VBScript Regular Expressions 5.5”
Alternatively a quick way to do it, if you don’t need to check for a subsequent letter as in `m1234X1 is:
if Doc.Cells(1,1).Value like "[a-zA-Z]#*" then ...(This doesn’t require a reference to anything)