Home/ Questions/Q 9003355
In Process

The Archive Base Latest Questions

Editorial Team
  • 0
Asked: 2026-06-16T00:42:04+00:00

How can I write a formula for column B that will find numbers in

  • 0

How can I write a formula for column B that will find numbers in A, then sum and display them in B?

Here’s the example:

A                       B
Milan 2I + Marko 3I     5        what happened: 2+3=5, display 5
Nevena 6I + Umic 4I     10       what happened: 6+4=10, display 10

Things I’ve tried:

  1. left, right, mid – can’t work because names are random;

  2. some formulas which only give me the first number, without the second;

  3. writing a UDF in C but failed to convert it to javascript code;

  4. tried converting letters into 0s, then summing all the numbers in
    that one cell.

Things I’ve thought of but don’t know how to pull off:

  1. writing a formula that finds numbers that are followed by “I”.

Note: The only constant thing in the cells is the fact that each number is followed by “I”

Share

Leave an answer

You must login to add an answer.

Need An Account,

1 Answer

  1. Editorial Team

    This should work for finding the two numerical values, however it is a bit convoluted and I’m sure it can be abstracted to a few cells to make it easier and more efficient. Assume A1 is the cell of your string.

    =SUM(VALUE(MID(A1,FIND(REGEXEXTRACT(A1,"[0-9]I"),A1),LEN(REGEXEXTRACT(A1,"[0-9]I"))-1)),VALUE(MID(A1,FIND(REGEXEXTRACT(REGEXREPLACE(A1,CONCATENATE("^.{",FIND(REGEXEXTRACT(A1,"[0-9]I"),A1)-1,"}[0-9]I",""),""),"[0-9]I"),A1),LEN(REGEXEXTRACT(REGEXREPLACE(A1,CONCATENATE("^.{",FIND(REGEXEXTRACT(A1,"[0-9]I"),A1)-1,"}[0-9]I"),""),"[0-9]I"))-1)))
    • 0