Regular expressions give Tim Patrick the creeps, but he overcame his fears by discovering specially crafted regex patterns can access data in a way that’s actually kind of cool. I've always been ...
Regex patterns help search text strings efficiently (e.g., emails, digits, specific sequences) using symbols. Excel provides predefined regex functions (REGEXTEST, REGEXEXTRACT, REGEXREPLACE) to ...
Excel has formulas for just about everything—XMATCH for finding data, IF for logic, and SUMIF for conditional totals. But you've probably hit a wall if you've ever needed to extract specific patterns ...