How do I export text from an excel cell with alphanumeric values into another column?

Question

I have several cell entries in column B. They look similar to this:

1050670||Target Optical  4226||6132||7132
1051752||Wal-Mart Vision Ctr  305095||6132||7132
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Answer 1

If you want to disregard the numbers within the Text pseudo-field, you will have to parse the split-out value closely for characters within ASCII 48-57.

      

That ugly formula in B1 is,

=TRIM(LEFT(MID(A1, FIND("||", A1)+2, FIND("¶", SUBSTITUTE(A1, "||", "¶", 2))-FIND("||", A1)-2)&0, MIN(INDEX(ROW(INDIRECT("1:"&LEN(MID(A1, FIND("||", A1)+2, FIND("¶", SUBSTITUTE(A1, "||", "¶", 2))-FIND("||", A1)-2)&0)))+((CODE(MID((MID(A1, FIND("||", A1)+2, FIND("¶", SUBSTITUTE(A1, "||", "¶", 2))-FIND("||", A1)-2)&0),ROW(INDIRECT("1:"&LEN(MID(A1, FIND("||", A1)+2, FIND("¶", SUBSTITUTE(A1, "||", "¶", 2))-FIND("||", A1)-2)&0))),1))<48)+(CODE(MID(UPPER(MID(A1, FIND("||", A1)+2, FIND("¶", SUBSTITUTE(A1, "||", "¶", 2))-FIND("||", A1)-2)&0),ROW(INDIRECT("1:"&LEN(MID(A1, FIND("||", A1)+2, FIND("¶", SUBSTITUTE(A1, "||", "¶", 2))-FIND("||", A1)-2)&0))),1))>57))*1E+99,,))-1))

Fill down as necessary. As bad as it looks, the calculation load on a medium array formula would dwarf it but the INDIRECT does make it volatile so get your stripped values and Copy, Paste Special Values back to remove the formulas.