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To remove non-numeric characters from a cell in Google Sheets, you can use the “REGEXREPLACE” function. This function allows you to specify a regular expression pattern and replace any non-numeric characters with a blank space. This can be useful for cleaning up data and ensuring that only numeric values are present in a cell. You can also use the “CLEAN” function to remove any non-printable characters from a cell. By combining these functions, you can easily remove non-numeric characters from a cell in Google Sheets.
Google Sheets: Remove Non-Numeric Characters from Cell
You can use the following formula to remove non-numeric characters from cells in Google Sheets:
=REGEXREPLACE(A2,"D+", "")
This particular formula will remove all non-numeric characters from cell A2.
Example: Remove Non-Numeric Characters from Cell in Google Sheets
Suppose we have the following list of phone numbers in Google Sheets:
Now suppose that we would like to remove all non-numeric characters from each phone number so that we’re only left with the numbers.
We can use the following formula to do so:
=REGEXREPLACE(A2,"D+", "")We’ll type this formula in cell B2, then drag and fill it down to each remaining cell in column B:
Notice that each non-numeric character has been removed from each phone number.
In particular, the parentheses and the dashes have been removed from each phone number.
Note: You can find the complete documentation for the REGEXREPLACE function .
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