Article ID: 152568
Article Last Modified on 10/10/2006
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Excel 97 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Excel 95 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Excel 5.0 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Excel 98 for Macintosh
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SUMMARY
This article contains a sample Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications function that extracts a particular word from a sentence.
MORE INFORMATION
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To Create the Custom Function
Type the following in a new Visual Basic module:
Function FindNthWord(WordStrg As Variant, occur)
' Declare variables where WordStrg is the string whose Nth word you
' want to extract and occur is the number of the word (or Nth word)
' you want to extract from the string.
Dim y, z As Integer
Dim WordSearch()
y = (Len(WordStrg) - (Len(Application.Substitute(WordStrg, " ", _
"")))) / 1
ReDim WordSearch(1 To (y + 1))
z = 1
For SearchLoop = 1 To y
z = (InStr(z, WordStrg, " "))
WordSearch(SearchLoop) = Left(WordStrg, z)
WordStrg = Application.Trim(Mid(WordStrg, z + 1))
z = 1
Next SearchLoop
WordSearch(y + 1) = WordStrg
' Assigns the result to the function.
FindNthWord = WordSearch(occur)
End Function
To Use the Custom Function
Enter the following in a worksheet:
A1: For a comparison of Dow Jones B1: A2: Industrial Averages and the price of this B2: A3: stock over the same quarter, refer to the B3: A4: next section of the worksheet. B4:- Type the following formula in cell B1:
B1: =FindNthWord(A1,2)
- With cell B1 selected, grab the fill handle and fill the formula down through cell B4.
The resulting worksheet looks like this:
A1: For a comparison of Dow Jones B1: a A2: Industrial Averages and the price of this B2: Averages A3: stock over the same quarter, refer to the B3: over A4: next section of the worksheet. B4: section
REFERENCES
For more information about the InStr function in Microsoft Excel 97, from the Visual Basic Editor, click the Office Assistant, type InStr, click Search, and then click to view "InStr Function."
NOTE: If the Assistant is hidden, click the Office Assistant button on the Standard toolbar. If the Assistant is not able to answer your query, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
176476 OFF: Office Assistant Not Answering Visual Basic Questions
"Visual Basic User's Guide," version 5.0, Chapter 3, "Creating a User- Defined Function"
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