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I haven't used the addins, but any real regex support should allow you to extract multiple matches in one shot. However, you'd still need a bit of code to identify the max value. Kyle On Jul 2, 2013 10:51 AM, "Harper, Cynthia" <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > I've used a couple of Add-ins for regexp in excel, but I wondered if > regexp had the ability to test the multiple matches in a single-line > expression. But I guess that does require a multiline program - I'll use > VB. Thanks. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of > Kyle Banerjee > Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2013 11:47 AM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Regular expression for maximum 4-digit number > > AFAIK, Excel has no built in regex capabilities so you'd need to call > vbscript from Excel to do this. > > In any case, you'll need to write an actual program to evaluate each line > since multiple values can occur in the same line. This will be easier if > done as text than in VBA. Besides, the data in Excel came from Mil in text > to begin with. > > There are many ways to do what you want, but perl would be hard to beat > for this use case > > Kyle > On Jul 2, 2013 10:02 AM, "Harper, Cynthia" <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > > Is there a way to return (in Excel, if possible) the largest 4-digit > > number (by word boundaries) in a string? I've extracted the 863 > > fields from Millennium for my active periodicals, and want to find the > > latest year in each run. I'm willing to estimate it by taking the > > largest 4-digit number in the string. I'm doing this in Excel. Any help? > > > > Cindy Harper > > Electronic Services and Serials Librarian Virginia Theological > > Seminary > > 3737 Seminary Road > > Alexandria VA 22304 > > 703-461-1794 > > [log in to unmask] > > >