1 CSE 2337 Chapter 7 Organizing Data 2 Overview Import unstructured data Concatenation Parse Create Excel Lists 3 CSV Files Comma Separated Values aka Comma Delimited files Can easily import into Excel Must know where youre going with imported data 4 Concatenate Combines values in a range of cells into one text item in a new cell =CONCATENATE(text1,text2,) Can have multiple arguments 5 Example 6 Left and Right May be used to remove incorrect entries RIGHT function Returns last character(s) in a text string, based on number of characters specified =RIGHT(text,num_chars) LEFT function Extracts characters from the beginning or left side of a text string =LEFT(text,num_chars) 7 Right Example 8 Trim TRIM function Removes all spaces in a text string except for the single spaces between words =TRIM(text) 9 Trim 10 Finding Characters FIND function Returns the starting position of one text value within another text value Case sensitive =FIND(find_text,within_text,start_num) SEARCH function Does same thing as FIND function, but is not case sensitive 11 Find 12 Other Text Functions 13 Other Text Functions