As Ashish rightly points out, these functions will work if your percentages
are written in ascending order. However, in cases where your text may look
like this
10+2 with 60% with pcm or 45% in the aggregate, it will return 60%, not 45%
To tackle this issue, try the following array formula
=IFERROR(MIN(--MID(A2,SMALL(IFERROR(ROW(INDIRECT("1:"&LEN(A2)))*SEARCH("%",MID(A2,ROW(INDIRECT("1:"&LEN(A2))),1)),""),ROW(INDIRECT("1:"&MAX(1,LEN(A2)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(A2,"%",""))))))-2,3)),"")
Another flaw with the formula is that since this uses 3 characters, if your
text has a single digit percentage starting at the very beginning of the
text like '8% with pcm or 45% in the aggregate', it will return a blank, and
not 8%. But I guess that would be a very rare case :D
Enjoy,
Sam Mathai Chacko (GL)
On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 5:15 PM, rajan verma <rajanverma1...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Try this:
> =IF(ISERROR(MID(A2,FIND("%",A2,1)-2,3)),"",MID(A2,FIND("%",A2,1)-2,3))
>
> On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 3:08 PM, karan 1237 <karan1...@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Hello All,
>>
>> Hope you all are doing well. I'm here as usual, need your assistance. I'v
>> text data which have percentage numbers (50% or 60%), I need to extract
>> minimum percentage number. Kindly help me to sort out this problem.
>>
>> Text is : minimum qualification pcm with 50% or MCA 60%
>> Result should be : 50%
>>
>> I've attached the file, Please find enclosed.
>>
>>
>> Thanks
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