Split string by upper/lower case

**adam_c** · 12-10-2010, 09:56 AM

Hi

I have a number of cells that contain poorly punctuated text. Here's an example:

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquaUt enim ad minim veniam...

there are several instances of a lower case word being joined by the first word in the following sentence without space or punctuation.

e.g.

endStart

when it should be

end. Start

Ideally, I'd like to split such strings into separate cells. Alternatively, inserting ". " between the lower and upper case characters might do the job.

Any ideas how this could be done?

Thanks

**NBVC** · 12-10-2010, 11:09 AM

Assuming only one split will be necessary and that the first letter is always an uppercase, then try:

in B1:

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in C1:

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this formula to be confirmed with CTRL+SHIFT+ENTER and not just ENTER.

Where A1 contains original string.

**adam_c** · 12-10-2010, 11:17 AM

thanks for that, will give it a shot.

There are multiple instances however in each cell.

e.g.

Sentence one starts and ends hereSentence two starts and ends hereSentence three starts and ends here

Its not a consistent number in each case

Worst case scenario though... I guess I could run iterations of the above approach

**NBVC** · 12-10-2010, 11:24 AM

I was afraid of that...

How about then this in B1:

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confirmed with CTRL+SHIFT+ENTER and copied across as many columns as necessary and down as far as necessary.

**adam_c** · 12-10-2010, 11:56 AM

Wow - that's awesome. Thanks

**NBVC** · 12-10-2010, 12:04 PM

You are welcome,

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