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At 12:57 31/08/2014 -0500, Jim Byrnes wrote:
I have some cells that contain data like: (IBM) Ibm corporation. I need to extract the stock symbol ie IBM. I thought I could use regex to get (IBM) and then strip the parens. So far I have been unable to do so.
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myRegex.SearchString = "\([A-Z]\)"

The pattern [A-Z] will match any single capital letter, so your string will match (I) but not (IBM). You need something like "\([A-Z]+\)" - where the "+" after the "[A-Z]" makes the combination match one or more consecutive capital letters.

I trust this helps.

Brian Barker


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