Question

I am trying to seperate a field into two by finding the values that are in the left of an asterisk and then what’s on the right.

For example
Cell C1 is 0A*33 then C2 should be 0A and C3 should be 33.

I have the following formulas in cells C2 and C3:

=LEFT(C1,SEARCH("~*",C1,1)-1)

=RIGHT(C1,LEN(A3)-SEARCH("~*",C1,1))

These formulas work great as long as there is a asterisk in the cell, if not it results in a #VALUE! error.

I have even tried (For the left side) =LEFT(C1,IF(ISERROR(SEARCH("~*",C1,1)-1),C1,SEARCH("~*",C1,1)-1)) with the same outcome.

If the cell does not have an asterisk it must return the whole value in C2 and nothing in cell C3.

Answer 1

Have you tried:
In C2:

=IF(ISERROR(FIND("*",C1)),C1,LEFT(C1,FIND("*",C1)-1))

In C3:

=IF(ISERROR(FIND("*",C1)),"",RIGHT(C1,LEN(C1)-FIND("*",C1)))

You could use the same idea with SEARCH, but FIND works fine in this case:

In C2:

=IF(ISERROR(SEARCH("~*",C1,1)),C1,LEFT(C1,SEARCH("~*",C1,1)-1))

In C3:

=IF(ISERROR(SEARCH("~*",C1,1)),"",RIGHT(C1,LEN(C1)-SEARCH("~*",C1,1)))