While developing code, there are many situations where you might need to validate if a string begins with some specific characters (another string). For example, take this scenario: A company named XYZ allocates employee IDs starting with the abbreviation of the department name. If that
In this article, we will look at how to automate the launching of a particular action when a cell on the worksheet contains a particular value. There’re three ways that we can do this with; InStr, Like, and Find. Example 1: INSTR Instr is a
String manipulation is a crucial skill in VBA programming. The skill level of a VBA developer is often determined by how well he/she can manipulate string data. Excel is very strong in mathematics operations and comes with loads of built-in calculation functions. But text manipulation
The Instr function in VBA checks to see if a string is contained within another string. This can be useful when trying to extract information from strings of data contained in Excel cells, for example. Instr Syntax The Instr function is made up of 4