Re: [libreoffice-users] Calc - Matching Up Text Fields

Unfortunately, one bank throws everything except for the date and the
amount into a single "description" column.  It would still be simpler if
they did not include the actual transaction date in that column, as it
means the description changes... well... daily.  Grrrr....


On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 12:27 AM, Brian Barker <b.m.barker@btinternet.com>wrote:

> At 21:35 31/07/2013 -0400, Don Parris wrote:
>
> > Again, I just need to figure out how to extract that bit from the bank's
> > description.  Any thoughts on that?
>
> As I mentioned, that depends on the precise possibilities in the bank
> data.  If the relevant data is always in the same columns of the relevant
> records, you can probably extract it using MID(); otherwise you may need to
> do a more complicated search through the text.
>
>
> Brian Barker
>
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