Posted by: tanstaafl.
A simple (I'm pretty sure) Excel question - 26/03/2010 20:41
Is there a function in Excel that will allow me to look at just the last two letters of a text string, and perform an operation based on what those letters are?
In other words, if I am in cell E12, I want to do something like this:
if [last_two_letters_C12]=ar,[append "áste" to the contents of E12],
if [last_two_letters_C12]=er,[append "íste" to the contents of E12],
if [last_two_letters_C12]=ir, [append "íste" to the contents of E12]
What I don't know how to do is parse out the last two letters of C12 to operate my if... statement.
Is there a simple way to do this? (Anybody who has had a year of high school español will know what I am trying to do here.)
tanstaafl.
In other words, if I am in cell E12, I want to do something like this:
if [last_two_letters_C12]=ar,[append "áste" to the contents of E12],
if [last_two_letters_C12]=er,[append "íste" to the contents of E12],
if [last_two_letters_C12]=ir, [append "íste" to the contents of E12]
What I don't know how to do is parse out the last two letters of C12 to operate my if... statement.
Is there a simple way to do this? (Anybody who has had a year of high school español will know what I am trying to do here.)
tanstaafl.