Is there a way to have cxGrid (devexpress) accept only uppercase letters ? Or have it accept uppercase only for certain fields ? I could not find any setting in the grid that would achieve this...
Set Column.Properties to TextEdit and then
Column.Properties.CharCase = ecUpperCase
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The title says it all. One thing I want to avoid is long formulas. If it's more than a single function, something is clearly wrong since this should be a common use case.
I've tried TO_PURE_NUMBER and VALUE
Your question suggests that the value $71.4145 is not a number but a text string. That can happen if your spreadsheet locale is such that it expects comma as decimal mark, or expects a different currency symbol. It will also happen if you have formatted the value as plain text rather than currency.
To convert the text string $71.4145 into the number 71.4145 (seventy-one and change), use regexextract(), like this:
=iferror( value( regexextract( to_text(A2), "[\d.]+" ) ) )
Just use -- to suppress text to equivalent number values. Try-
=--A1
try:
=SUBSTITUTE(A1; "$"; )*1
Users are able to enter a string into a cell. If the string contains either the word "Letter" and/or the word "Note", the entire row needs to turn red. These words are not case sensitive. I can create two conditional formats for the same row but would prefer one that looks for either word. One person had me try =OR(SEARCH(“LETTER”,$M6),SEARCH(“NOTE”,$M6)) in the "Conditional Formula_ Custom Formula is", it did not work. This works for the word "letter" in a string: =SEARCH("LETTER",$M6). This works for the word "note" in a string: =SEARCH("note",$M6). I would like to put them into one statement.
try:
=REGEXMATCH($M6, "(?i)LETTER|NOTE")
I'm a bit of a newbie at this, so hope to get some help.
I have a large spreadsheet where columns C and D each have a blank space before the data in each column. Can some one please explain me how to trim an entire column to remove starting spaces in LibreOffice of Google Spreadsheets
In LibreOffice:
1. Select the cells you want to change
2. Edit -> Find & Replace
3. Find: ^\s+
4. Replace:
5. Other Options - Regular expressions: ON
6. Other Options - Current selection only: ON
7. Click Replace All
In Google Sheets, I would do the following.
First, enter the formula =arrayformula(trim(C:D)) in some cell of the first row, for example E1. It will fill two columns (E and F) with trimmed values (removing spaces at the beginning and end of each string).
Then copy the contents of columns E-F and paste values only in C-D; this is done with Ctrl-Shift-V, or by selecting "paste special -> values only" from the context manu.
In LibreOffice you can trim all spaces (beginning and end) via the "text to column" function:
Data -> "Text to Column"
Then assure the column is not being split (e.g. select tab als separator, if no tabs are present) and select "Trim spaces"
I'm sure the other answer works, but if you just need to do it once, I have an easy option. Download Sublime Text or some other text editor. Look for spaces at the beginning of a string (using ("^ ") without quotes should do it), and erase them.
Text editors are really helpful for normalizing data like this when you don't need updates in the future.
try this.
in cell A1 10/8/2013 Mike1, 2013, 0
now Split(A1,",")
now change A1 and add a colon 10/8/2013 Mike:1, 2013, 0
Split(A1,",") ... notice how Mike:1 is gone. Bug?
I need to split something with a colon in it and it is chopping off part of the text
The problem is that "10/8/2013 Mike:1" is interpreted as a date, it seems to be something like: "dd/mm/yyyy hhhh:mm". (if you change the display of the first cell to raw text you'll see he is giving you a number: 41496).
try this formula:
=arrayformula(SUBSTITUTE(arrayformula(split(REGEXREPLACE(A1;":";"###");","));"###";":"))
in a easier way: As I suppose you can't change the way it's displayed, the possible workaround that I see here is to first split around the ":", then split with the "," and then join the two first elements.
I can't reproduce this issue, either with function SPLIT or with Split text into columns... and with or without formatting as dd/mm/yyyy hhhh:mm.
Select A1, Data > Split text into columns... is all that is required.
I have a column in open office like this:
abc-23
abc-32
abc-1
Now, I need to get only the sum of the numbers 23, 32 and 1 using a formula and regular expressions in calc.
How do I do that?
I tried
=SUMIF(F7:F16,"([:digit:].)$")
But somehow this does not work.
Starting with LibreOffice 6.4, you can use the newly added REGEX function to generically extract all numbers from a cell / text using a regular expression:
=REGEX(A1;"[^[:digit:]]";"";"g")
Replace A1 with the cell-reference you want to extract numbers from.
Explanation of REGEX function arguments:
Arguments are separated by a semicolon ;
A1: Value to extract numbers from. Can be a cell-reference (like A1) or a quoted text value (like "123abc"). The following regular expression will be applied to this cell / text.
"[^[:digit:]]": Match every character which is not a decimal digit. See also list of regular expressions in LibreOffice
The outer square brackets [] encapsulate the list of characters to search for
^ adds a NOT, meaning that every character not included in the search list is matched
[:digit:] represents any decimal digit
"": replace matching characters (every non-digit) with nothing = remove them
"g": replace all matches (don't stop after the first non-digit character)
Unfortunately Libre-Office only supports regex in find/replace and in search.
If this is a once-only deal, I would copy column A to column to B, then use [data] [text to columns] in B and use the - as a separator, leaving you with all the text in column B and the numbers in column C.
Alternatively, you could use =Right(A1,find("-",A1,1)+1) in column B, then sum Column C.
I think that this is not exactly what do you want, but maybe it can help you or others.
It is all about substring (in Calc called [MID][1] function):
First: Choose your cell (for example with "abc-23" content).
Secondly: Enter the start length ("british" --> start length 4 = tish).
After that: To print all remaining text, you can use the [LEN][2] function (known as length) with your cell ("abc-23") in parameter.
Code now looks like this:
D15="abc-23"
=MID(D15; 5; LEN(D15))
And the output is: 23
When you edit numbers (in this example 23), no problem. However, if you change anything before (text "abc-"), the algorithm collapses because the start length is defined to "5".
Paste the string in a cell, open search and replace dialog (ctrl + f) extended search option mark regular expression search for ([\s,0-9])([^0-9\s])+ and replace it with $1
adjust regex to your needs
I didn't figure out how to do this in OpenOffice/LibreOffice directly. After frustrations in searching online and trying various formulas, I realised my sheet was a simple CSV format, so I opened it up in vim and used vim's built-in sed-like feature to find/replace the text in vim command mode:
:%s/abc-//g
This only worked for me because there were no other columns with this matching text. If there are other columns with the same text, then the solution would be a bit more complex.
If your sheet is not a CSV, you could copy the column out to a text file and use vim to find/replace, and then paste the data back into the spreadsheet. For me, this was a lot less frustrating than trying to figure this out in LibreOffice...
I won't bother with a solution without knowing if there really is interest, but, you could write a macro to do this. Extract all the numbers and then implement the sum by checking for contained numbers in the text.