Introducing REGEX Excel Functions - Extract, Clean, and Format Data Easily! (NEW!)

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Regex, or regular expressions, is now available in Excel beta version! This makes it SO much easier to search, match, and manipulate text. (note: currently not all beta users have access. Microsoft is slowly rolling these out.)
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With regex, you can quickly find all email addresses in a list, reformat dates, or correct typos in a large dataset. You can extract phone numbers from text or change the format of thousands of rows with just a few clicks.
In this video we'll cover two new Excel functions:
▶ REGEXEXTRACT: This Excel function extracts specific text from a string using patterns called regular expressions (regex). It can find and pull the first match, all matches, or parts of the first match.
▶ REGEXREPLACE: This Excel function lets you replace parts of a text string using patterns called regular expressions (regex). This is useful for cleaning up data or making consistent changes across a dataset.
00:00 Regular Expression Regex in Excel
02:37 Extract Email Addresses with Excel REGEXEXTRACT
07:37 Extract Text Inside Parentheses with Excel REGEXEXTRACT
09:27 Extract Dates from Text with Excel REGEXEXTRACT
10:56 Extract Multiple Dates from Text in Excel
11:49 Extract Website URL from Text in Excel
14:31 Split Combined Words in Excel
14:59 Replace Leading Zeros with Excel REGEXREPLACE
16:06 Replace Special Characters with Excel REGEXREPLACE
17:30 Insert a Character at Specific Positions
18:34 RegEx Cheat Sheet
18:47 Wrap up
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[@LeilaGharani]

Download the Excel workbook and Regex cheat sheet: pages.xelplus.com/regex-excel-file Note: These functions are currently available to some users in the beta channel for Microsoft Insiders. Please be patient as they (often very slowly) roll out to all Office 365 users.

[@joerperson]

Can I use this function to extract first name, middle initial, and last name from a range where not all records have a middle initial?

[@haashini10031985]

Thanks so much Leila.

[@fellzer]

Must be in Excel online. Pass.

[@somebody767]

​@@joerpersonHello joerperson, I have crafted the following regex for you: \b(\p{Lu}\p{Ll}+)\s((?:(?:\p{Lu}(?:\.?\s?)*)\s?)*)(\p{Lu}\p{Ll}+)\b And inside an EXCEL formule: =TOROW(IFERROR(REGEXEXTRACT(A2;"\b(\p{Lu}\p{Ll}+)\s((?:(?:\p{Lu}(?:\.?\s?)*)\s?)*)(\p{Lu}\p{Ll}+)\b";2;0);"")) (maybe you have to replace all ; with , for your region settings of Windows) This regex is looking for 2 words after each other with a capital begin letter and the rest lowercase letters. I have used \p{Lu} instead of [A-Z] and \p{Ll} instead of [a-z], so also names from other langues will be accepted, as long as that language supports capital and lowercase letters.

[@lucascrackers]

Will this be available on home and student version?

[@dustandashes419]

I have been wanting REGEX in Excel for forever. I'm retired now, but even so, I will still use it. Back when I was extracting addresses from spreadsheets for databases as a function of my job, this would have been an invaluable tool. AI, REGEX, and Excel. What a time to be alive!

[@ashokwwf]

Hello sir, Could you please let me know how have you been using REGEX in Excel so far? Did you build any custom VBA functions? Please share your knowledge, it would be very helpful for me.

[@katrinabryce]

​@@ashokwwf At the moment I use Python to do it. Pandas library to open the Excel sheet, the re library to do the regex, and the appropriate database library depending on which database server you are using to write the results to the database. If I wanted to write them to the Excel sheet, then I would probably use xlwings to open and read the sheet, the other libraries like re to do whatever calculations I wanted, and xlwings to write the results back to the spreadsheet.

[@angeiring]

Finally REGEX came to Excel! I'm using an addin on Excel but I can't use the addin's REGEX inside LAMBDA(), having it natively will help A LOT.

[@anil-bhowte]

I have been waiting for the same for the last 10 years. I have been using this feature in VBA.

[@Tonymrtn]

@@katrinabryce I use a simple VBA code to reverse parse this. Basically you dynamic export the parameters to create a full set library and then parse the result to get to the end product. You can also set the import function to do a modular call but its complicated. Once done, depending on our DBMS, we’ll initiate a connection using SQLAlchemy or a comparable ORM to handle the data persistence layer. If we’re looping back to Excel, xlwings will handle the I/O operations, ensuring data integrity while we execute our computation logic

[@mrpage221]

You're the best for keeping us apprised of all of these new functions. Thank you for all your hard work for our benefit.

[@abhishekkuradia898]

Finally Regex in Excel, Thank you lord and thank you lelia as always you have the most valuable and up-to-date content.

[@brijkishorkatesaria8208]

Thank you Leila for your continuous effort and support

[@chrisouellet2832]

yeah! - RegEx is finally here!! thanks for your quick tour Leila! this is just awesome!

[@ivanbork4175]

As always, you take not only a good an interesting object, but You also present it, so it´s to easy understand and use . That being said, I´m starting to be a little critic about MS and their promises of upgrading, it often takes about a year and a half from seeing new object to the actual rollout.

[@katrinabryce]

Yes, it is probably a good idea to look back at the videos on this channel from about 2 years ago for tips that you can actually implement today.

[@ConradWong]

It was such a headache to do regex extraction via VBA or Power Query routes. What a wonderful addition.

[@jagex4me]

Was using a combination of FIND, MID, LEN and some more. This is definitely easier. Next is finding a way to have Excel conclude on the nature of a transaction after doing several of these evaluations. Nesting IF statements has its limitations. Thanks for sharing. Now we wait patiently until it is available 😊

[@fano974]

Amazing examples, thank you

[@leo0619]

Clear explanations and step-by-step demonstrations made what seemed like a complex topic much more understandable and manageable.Thank you for your dedication to educating and empowering others in the realm of Excel functions.

[@LeilaGharani]

Many thanks for the kind feedback!

[@JonLondrezos]

I had to write complicated VBA functions to use the regex libraries before. This is a game changer

[@colbyjackson8919]

The majority of my excel knowledge I've learned from your videos. Thank you so much. I play with excel for fun and love trying the learning your tips!

[@LeilaGharani]

Great to hear! Thanks for tuning in.

[@balendranrajanathan6808]

Fabulous New Function explained expertly and easily

[@DingusBatus]

Interesting, very interesting. Even as a home/hobby Excel user i can see me using this. 😀 I know nothing about REGEX, I had hard of but never seen it. Your explanations was enough as get me started in seeing the patterns of how it works. 😀 Once it’s available to the average user this is going to be worth the learning more about.😀

[@jonasfermefors]

Absolutely brilliant function. Thank you, Leila, for the video. This one will save me lots of time... when I get it.

[@stefaniecalisto]

Amazing! I have needed this so much in my apparel analysis where so much info is unstructured text. 🤩

[@teigenxayden]

I have seen many of your course ,each one is excerllent!

[@dianew.1568]

Thanks for sharing this Leila! It looks awesome! Can't wait for this new feature. I wish it was already out.

[@joles72]

It is great to finally have this in excel! Thanks for the video!

[@sunshine0282]

Another slam dunk... Thank you, life saver!!!

[@akshaysarkar905]

Thank you for this. I hope this will be available to the public very soon.

[@maneshzaveri5894]

Thanks Leila - well explained, hope to use it soon.

[@GerhardHolzer911]

Tolle Hilfen - ich bin schon sehr gespannt, wann es verfügbar sein wird; und danke wie immer für das tolle Video

[@ThePandaBuffet]

oh muh goodness Leila! I don't know if you covered this before. Watching this video and seeing your use of the textjoin function. I decided to use this with the filter function. Using a V/Xlookup function to find a match but only finding one.... You can use the filter function to find many/more/all, but instead of spilling down, you can make a list. Thank you for the inspriation.

[@vijayarjunwadkar]

Thank you Leila, It's really cool to have the regex functions in Excel now and you have done great job in explaining them in the best way as usual. 🙂 Hoping to see more "REGular" videos from you, so I can "EXpress" better and better! 😁

[@LeilaGharani]

Thank you so much, Vijay! There will be more. 😊

[@unnikrishnansanthosh]

thank you the simple explanation and of course the practice file

[@kadairh]

Thank you so much this is awesome! Plus all the other formula keywords I didn’t know existed like TOROW!

[@jrdexterinc]

Thanks, Leila, this was very helpful. As usual

[@robvinje5119]

Amazing stuff. Amazing Teacher!! You ROCK Leila!! 👊🏼👊🏼👍🏼👍🏼

[@MichaelColeman_gig]

I don't have this function yet, and I really need it today. Great tutorial.

[@TRIVIAFOOT977]

Thanks a lot. you are always bringing us updates. 👍👍👍

[@LeilaGharani]

Our pleasure!

[@abdulsamedhabibulla9174]

Awesome! Thank you Leila!

[@jerry5149]

Yay! As always, a great presentation!

[@BHASKARJOSHI-cw7qn]

Love your work

[@alvarorodriguezlasso]

Awesome, regards from Cali-Colombia

[@njzzb]

This is useful function.Thank you.

[@rolexcel]

Thanks for this Leila. As an analyst who at times needs to mine large amounts of data that I extract into excel, this will be very useful and save a lot of time. Last year I spent several days mining names, codes and email addresses from a few million random comment records. I have techniques to do this however this would have been more efficient, both faster and easier.

[@LeilaGharani]

That's a great use case for Regex. 😊

[@MagdyTawfikA]

Thank you Leila for this information, much appreciated!

[@LeilaGharani]

You're so welcome!

[@vishalbharakhada3357]

Thank u so much. It very useful to me.

[@luckymandragoran8471]

This just made my day! I lost weeks of work on new formulas because excel crashed yesterday. It also uses regex in office scripts. The rebuild can have this now and it will be way faster too.

[@LeilaGharani]

Yay! Let‘s hope it gets rolled out soon.

[@Abdulrahman.Alnahari]

Great work Leila thank you for sharing your knowledge.

[@LeilaGharani]

Glad it was helpful!

[@ognightrider8730]

So cool! Thank you!

[@keagankemp6275]

I have been waiting for this day, had to watch this vid, i currently use python to use regex now it’s local to excel so distributing reports are now easier

[@markpodesta4605]

Thank you Leila. More magic from Excel! 😀

[@LeilaGharani]

😁

[@cameronhampton1315]

This is amazing. I have a few ideas where this will save me so much time. Great video as always.

[@LeilaGharani]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@xyclos]

You are fantastic. Thanks so much Leila!!

[@LeilaGharani]

You're so welcome!

[@zzota]

Brilliant explanation. Thanks Leila.

[@LeilaGharani]

Glad you liked it!!

[@TheDigitalOne]

Ehehehe, excellent time saving useful Excel formula turned into an very useful function. Thanks. for the introduction and teaching the new function. The function does seem to have a few glitches here and there, but with a few tweaks here and there the function does seem to work quite fine! 👌🥰✨💎

[@sushantaful]

Many many thanks for your nice tutorial videos.

[@LeilaGharani]

Our pleasure :)

[@makboolarakkal6802]

Very helpfull function. Great

[@chrism9037]

So awesome Leila, I can't wait to get them!

[@LeilaGharani]

Thanks, Chris!

[@becs-ps1bb]

that's a revolution! wow thanks as always Leila!

[@LeilaGharani]

It really is!

[@chongyh2178]

Thanks Leila! Tutorial on BREAKING up the combined words in Excel using Regextract is actually not BAD..

[@JJ_TheGreat]

Haha!!! I see what you did there!!! 😉

[@DaveHart-G]

Something I do once every couple of years is to create a hypertext linked version of a directory listing of files, starting with the standard output of the command dir / s > dirlist.txt This is then imported into Excel & I then have to systematically review the structure of the paths and separate out information like directory / file, file type, path, filename. Sometimes there is meta-data embedded in the path and file name that are helpful to provide fields that you can filter a long list. Each case has generally had some unique characteristics that mean you can't simply create a standard solution. Regex looks like it might simplify some of the analysis and parsing that I have to do.

[@SavedbyGraceCT]

Thank you, Leila!

[@learningwithmaliha]

Amazing function!

[@piggybankaccountant]

I LOVE the fact that you are using AI to extract the pattern from regex! Feels like advanced excel has been unlocked to the world!

[@krzysztofmazurkiewicz5270]

Having to play with Regex in C and C++ was fun but here it looks easy ;)

[@pairenu]

Brilliant explain

[@ricigri1242]

My nr1 source to the rescue😎. Huge thank you

[@teigenxayden]

You are so great !

[@arthursanyanga105]

Wonderfull , thank you

[@alaaraad2565]

Thank you soooo much

[@chrisreillyfinancialmodeling]

I think this is going to be hugely helpful for categorization of bank data in a 13 week cash flow forecast.

[@chh8860]

Whoa! ... Leila on Wednesday? ... a surprise ... a very pleasant surprise! Regex appears to be a very powerful function ... I will be a student for quite awhile before I can 'solo' with this function. But I was formulating several ideas during Prof Leila's flawless presentation. Thank you ... thank you ... thank you ... 😍😍😍

[@dchall8]

It was excellent but I noticed a flaw. At about 16:40 when replacing special characters, the $ in Ver$ion was deleted and not replaced by an s.

[@LeilaGharani]

Yeah, I got too excited and I didn't want to sit on it for another day. 😁 As always, thanks for tuning in!

[@waaan_]

regex in Excel is game changer

[@tictacsrcool8028]

I love the way that u explain and everything can you please do a video about visual basics?

[@AHMADFAIZSIHAM]

Pengetahuan baru, makasih banyak!!!

[@JimHeil]

Great video!!

[@LeilaGharani]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@phongluunguyen4177]

thank you so much Leila ♥

[@LeilaGharani]

Our pleasure!

[@chrisrucker9975]

Great tutorial!

[@LeilaGharani]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@juanes1235]

Just, WOW!

[@teoxengineer]

I think the purpose of developing this function was to convert the Flash fill static structure into dynamic. It is super handy and useful. Thank you

[@SyedMuzammilMahasanShahi]

Thanks for the share.

[@LeilaGharani]

Our pleasure!

[@yousrymaarouf2931]

Fantastic

[@PearsAreOkay]

Finally, I get to regex that stage 5 clinger from my life!

[@paullaviano4793]

Hi Leila, Nice video, just a note you CAN tell it to extract email addresses, you can use name manager :)

[@Nitpickerman]

I am glad to see regex in use. Eventhough i do not see that in action for a year or two. Since having unix background I have been using regexp for more than 30 years, so I welcome this. What I am a bit bored about are all ”new features” that cannot be used, as it is not part of regular distributions. Still waiting for instance to be able to start using the checkboxes. I would appreciate if early testers in their channels could remind the excel teams about taking presented features/functions into genaral releases. As said, before it is in general use, it is useless for business use.

[@LeilaGharani]

I know - the update schedule can be too long depending on your settings. If your tenant is set to semi annual then you really need to wait long….

[@wirechair]

been waiting for this since 2020. It is in VBA i think but blow my mind why this was never included from like since 20 years ago. Super useful tool. Anything with using text should come with it honestly. Still no python in excel for regular users!!!

[@LeilaGharani]

Yeah, Python is still in Beta. It's been some time already. 🙄

[@Pityons]

Thank you, Leila. 😊

[@LeilaGharani]

My pleasure :)

[@skirkbri]

Thanks!

[@LeilaGharani]

Thank you!

[@rickyrock311]

Thank you so much...

[@LeilaGharani]

You're most welcome.

[@trjozsef]

Learned a lot, taking out leading zeroes is however easier with type conversion, =A1+0, probably even if it then needs to be converted back to string (&"").

[@koinguyen6823]

Thank Miss Leila

[@shahzad10001]

Love your work, helps my work!

[@maheshnevase9650]

Nice video

[@monologuesofaconsultant]

I love you 3000!

[@didierseverac]

I hope they'll add this to power query to !

[@alexanderbenson1602]

It'll be helpful to use this for giving rid of leading zeroes especially, for me

[@JonMotivationalRend]

Simply brilliant. I was going to suggest using AI as Regex patterns can be tricky.

[@danielstober6249]

It's so nice to see regex FINALLY supported in Excel! Your presentation was very good, especially in regards to how Excel handles multiple matches -- even as a longtime regex user, I wasn't sure how to deal with that in Excel. I have a couple of suggestions, too: First, you pointed out the "groups" within the pattern when showing how to break up dates into components, but I don't think you were clear enough about how those groups are defined. Second, I think using regex to remove leading zeroes is overkill (at least with the examples you used) since Excel does that by default anyway -- just convert the cell to a number and voilà. I suppose it would be useful if the product number contained any alpha chracters. . Anyway -- great video.

[@LeilaGharani]

Many thanks for your feedback!

[@mohammadj.shamim9342]

This is awesome. I was always looking for it. I am handling this situation in R or Python. Glad we have regex in Excel. Leila sensei, on a side note, I guess we both like Breaking Bad 😆.

[@LeilaGharani]

One of the best. 😊

[@Satyendra2022]

Excellent 👌👌👍👍 work

[@LeilaGharani]

Thanks a lot 😊

[@Satyendra2022]

@@LeilaGharani Your All Video 📷 are very awesome 👍😎, I like

[@sakura0291]

OMG, I was just thinking of this while at work today... I had to manually type them T_T

[@ageloskolaitis7821]

Thanks for the update. Wish there was an easier way to find the expressions than using AI to find the expression. Like pre-saved expressions in separate formula arguments.

[@mythals]

I can't wait for this function to be rolled out, it will be a massive time saver.

[@LeilaGharani]

Definitely. Hopefully it will not take that long.

[@asifpervaiz2694]

Leila how can I make money with excel . I also have knowledge of excel but don't know where to use my expertise

[@richardhay645]

About time Excel jntrodued These. The Cheat Sheet is valuable but a video on actually writing the code would be helpful. Thanks.

[@LeilaGharani]

Sure thing. Once Microsoft rolls this out, we'll prepare something.

[@arch.blender1178]

Leila the Legend :)

[@gurvindersingharora5301]

Hello Sir, Thank you for your useful videos on dax. Sir, when to combine ALL function with Calculate + Filter Function together in Dax ? Could you please make a video of it in detail soon 🙏