calculating a sum from cells that contain letters and numbers

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I continually evaluate data that comes in this form:

<"number" "text" ex. - < 0.3 U

I need a way to obtain the total while keeping the less than symbol and text
in the final result. Please note that the symbol and the text never changes
for a given data set. The data set tends to be upwards of 100 cells.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Thank you.
 
if is always a "< " in front and a " U" in back
set up a helper column with
=value(left(right(entry,Len(entry)-2),len(entry)-4))
sum this column
 
Thank you. This works well.

bj said:
if is always a "< " in front and a " U" in back
set up a helper column with
=value(left(right(entry,Len(entry)-2),len(entry)-4))
sum this column
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If it is always < and U then you can use

=SUMPRODUCT(--(0&TRIM(SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(A1:A10,"<",""),"U",""))))

to sum A1:A10 for instance, then just use a custom format like "< "0.00" U"

in the cell with the formula
 
=SUM(--MID(A1:A100,3,LEN(A1:A100)-4))
or
=SUM(--SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(A1:A100,"< ","")," U",""))

In each case, array entered (Control Shift Enter) .
 
Note that if there is a blank cell in that range both formulas will return
errors


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Regards,

Peo Sjoblom
 
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