Simulate string split function in Excel formula

Question

I am trying to split a string in an excel formula, something like I can do in many programming languages, e.g.

string words = \"some text\".split(\' \');
         


        

Answer 1

Some great worksheet-fu in the other answers but I think they've overlooked that you can define a user-defined function (udf) and call this from the sheet or a formula.

The next problem you have is to decide either to work with a whole array or with element.

For example this UDF function code

Public Function UdfSplit(ByVal sText As String, Optional ByVal sDelimiter As String = " ", Optional ByVal lIndex As Long = -1) As Variant
    Dim vSplit As Variant
    vSplit = VBA.Split(sText, sDelimiter)
    If lIndex > -1 Then
        UdfSplit = vSplit(lIndex)
    Else
        UdfSplit = vSplit
    End If
End Function

allows single elements with the following in one cell

=UdfSplit("EUR/USD","/",0)

or one can use a blocks of cells with

=UdfSplit("EUR/USD","/")