Count number of characters until encounter "&"

[belkingold]

I have a cell with the value "577256&S_MSGNUM=4777037808398&". I want
to count the number of characters that appear before the first & symbol
so I can do a left() on them. They are always integers, never letters.

 

[Bernie Deitrick]

=LEFT(A1,FIND("&",A1)-1)

or

=VALUE(LEFT(A1,FIND("&",A1)-1))

HTH,
Bernie
MS Excel MVP

 

[Die_Another_Day]

CharactersBefore& = Instr(1,"577256&S_MSGNUM=4777037808398&", "&") - 1

Charles

 

[titus]

I have a cell with the value "577256&S_MSGNUM=4777037808398&". I want
to count the number of characters that appear before the first & symbol
so I can do a left() on them. They are always integers, never letters.

Put your value in A1
Put & in A2
Put this code in A3 =LEFT(A1,FIND(A2,A1)-1)

Titus

 

[Bernie Deitrick]

Yikes! VBA:

Sub TryNow()
Dim myStr As String
Dim myVal As Double

myStr = Left(Range("A1").Value, InStr(1, Range("A1").Value, "&") - 1)
MsgBox myStr
myVal = CDbl(myStr)
MsgBox Format(myVal, "0.00")
End Sub

HTH,
Bernie
MS Excel MVP