Questions:
In Excel, for each row of the sheet I have various length strings (a1,a2,a3…). In cell B2 I have =Length(A1) to count the chars inside the string.
I need a formula/function that can truncate all strings in column A which have a character count > 20
Something like:
$string = THIS IS A LONG STRING I WANT TO TRUNCATE IF EXCEEDS 20 CHARS;
if ($string > 20)
{
COUNT 20 CHARS FROM THE BEGINNING OF STRING AND CUT THE REST
}
else
{
skip
}
How to&Answers:
You can just read the 1st 20 characters, it doesn’t matter if there are fewer;
=left(A1, 20)
Answer：
Use this,
=LEFT(DataCell,20)
eg:
=LEFT(A1,20)
Answer：
Use the Len function for Length and Left function to use only the first 20 caracters:
Dim myString As String
If (Len(myString) > 20) Then
myString = Left(myString, 20)
End If
Tags: string, stringexcel
