Excel VBA: How to remove substrings from a cell?

Question

I have a cell value like this:

This is a <\"string\">string, It should be <\"changed\">changed to <\"a\"> a number.

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Answer 1

Select the cells containing your text and run this short macro:

Sub Kleanup()
    Dim d As Range, s As String, rng As Range
    Dim gather As Boolean, L As Long, DQ As String
    Dim i As Long, s2 As String, CH As String

    Set rng = Selection
    DQ = Chr(34)

    For Each r In rng
        s = Replace(r.Text, "<" & DQ, Chr(1))
        s = Replace(s, DQ & ">", Chr(2))
        gather = True
        L = Len(s)
        s2 = ""
        For i = 1 To L
            CH = Mid(s, i, 1)
            If CH = Chr(1) Then gather = False
            If CH = Chr(2) Then gather = True
            If gather And CH <> Chr(2) Then s2 = s2 & CH
        Next i
        r.Value = s2
    Next r
End Sub