Extracting a number from a strig

You could try creating a formula like this, but note that this is not foolproof so you will need to spot-check to make sure that it works all the time:

VALUE({Buyer Name copy})

I tried that but it gives me Nan

Ah yeah, that’s a bummer.

You could make a more elaborate conditional formula to account for those entries using an IF() statement to check for the presence of those parentheses, and then use MID() function to extract the number out of there.

But I’m not sure how many other exceptions you would have to account for, so it might not be worth it to go down that path.

It might be best to just find a REGEX function to do this. I’m sure someone will chime in with a REGEX function, or you can probably find one in the forums from past threads.

I had to start learning REGEX for my current task, because otherwise formulas will be very large.
Regex to extract first number in string is REGEX_EXTRACT({Field},‘\d{1,5}’), where 1,5 - min/max possible number of digits.
I guess it can be done in a more effective way, but as “regex beginner” I would use REGEX_EXTRACT(
SUBSTITUTE({Buyer name copy},‘,’,‘’)
,‘\d{1,8}’) , wrapping into ISERROR() to avoid error messages.

Thank you I was able to do it with a REGEX formula

@Sobhy_Sonbol

What REGEX formula did you end up using?