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Extract by Regex

Category: Text Extraction Updated at: 2024-02-12

The Extract by Regex function is a feature that allows you to use regular expressions (regex) for advanced text extraction.

See it in Action

Requirements

Data

  • Target Data

    • Data Range: Identify the cells range where you want to apply the function.

    • Columns Included: Check this option if your selected range includes the first row as column headers. This ensures that the first row is recognized as column names and excluded from the processing.

  • Words to extract

    • Input Texts: Enter the specific words or phrases you wish to extract from the selected data range. This can be a single word or multiple words separated by a delimiter.

    • Case Insensitive?: Select this option if you want the search to be case-insensitive, making the function ignore case differences when identifying matches.

  • Delimiter: Choose a delimiter (like a comma or space) to separate multiple extracted items in the output.

Fill empty cells with

  • Keep Empty: Leave cells that are empty as is, without adding any text.

  • Forward Fill: Copy the value from the nearest non-empty cell above into empty cells before adding the specified letters or text.

  • Backward Fill: Copy the value from the nearest non-empty cell below into empty cells before adding the specified letters or text.

  • -: Fill empty cells with a letter "-".

  • 0: Fill empty cells with a letter "0".

  • Custom: Allows for a custom value or text to be inserted into empty cells prior to adding the specified letters.

Result Destination

Specify the starting cell where the results will be placed.

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