Re: [libreoffice-users] Access value separated by a comma

At 20:29 09/08/2014 -0500, Wade Smart wrote:
> I'm working on a sheet that has numbers for a sports club. At the 
> moment we use two columns ...
> What I would like to do is move to a single column design.
>
> Example data:
> B3=3
> C3=7
>
> What I would like to do is:
> B3=3,7
>
> How would I access the first or second value a pair value?

You have already seen how complicated things get if you try to 
extract two numbers - here 3 and 7 - from the three-character text 
string "3,7". There may be other ways of looking at this. I wonder 
why you wish to make the change; I can think of two reasons.

Do you want to be able to read or perhaps print the spreadsheet with 
the condensed version of the data? It's much simpler to go the other 
way: you can concatenate two values from separate columns using
=B3&","&C3
You could create an additional table with the condensed values which 
you would then use for reading or printing, perhaps defining a print 
range. You would copy values from your original table to the new one 
using the "=" operator, not using Copy and Paste, so that the values 
in your printing table followed changes to your original table and 
were not a fossilised copy.

Alternatively, perhaps you are pasting in values that already appear 
in the comma-separated form or that you simply prefer to type them 
this way. In that case, you could make use of Data | Text to 
Columns..., ticking Comma under "Separated by". This would split your 
text string "3,7" into two values in the current and following 
columns, also helpfully converting the text into numbers as it does.

I trust this helps.

Brian Barker


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