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mdrammeh
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10 years ago

How to extract number from text

I am trying to figure out how to extract numbers numbers from a text.   For example, if I want to extract the number of miles (MI) from this description:   Factory OH Expense ABCD1315 14.0 MI ...
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mdrammeh
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10 years ago

Received the folowing error message:

 

"The search Text provided to function 'FIND' could not be found in the given text."

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v-haibl-msft
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10 years ago

mdrammeh

 

Do some text stings in your data not have “MI” in them? The error message will return if it cannot find “MI” in the column values.

 

Best Regards,

Herbert