Computer programmers often use parsing programs to convert text into formats that other applications can use. Parsers split items in a text string into separate fields. If, for example, you have a ...

Importing data into Excel from other sources can a real headache, especially if you’re copying and pasting from an Internet source. Data that’s exported from a mainframe; from another program such as ...

As people who have contributed to my previous posts will know that I've been doing some work with database querys. The reason for this has been an attempt to redesign the invoicing system at my place ...

Data imported from other spreadsheets or databases is already separated into fields, using something called a field delimiter—a comma, tab, space, or custom character—to separate one field from ...

You might know how to use Microsoft Flash Fill to create new content, but you might not know that you can use this feature to parse characters across several rows ...

Simplify your data transformation by skipping complex parsing expressions and instead using Flash Fill and Power Query in Microsoft Excel. If you can only read one tech story a day, this is it. We use ...