Excel remove last or trailing comma in a cell
Sometimes when importing data from other files into Excel spreadsheet application, you may find there are extraneous characters such as commas appearing at the end of the strings. This tutorial explains how to use a combination of the IF, RIGHT, LEFT and LEN functions to remove the trailing comma in a cell in Excel.
How to remove the last or trailing comma in a cell in Excel?
As the below screenshot shown, cells in column B contain the data from which you want to remove trailing commas. Please do as follows to achieve it.
Generic formula
=IF(RIGHT(A1,1)=",",LEFT(A1,LEN(A1)-1),A1)
Arguments
A1: Represents the cell contains the text string from which you want to remove trailing comma.
How to use this formula?
1. Select a blank cell to output the text after removing the trailing comma. In this case, I select D3.
2. Enter the below formula into it and press the Enter key. Select the result cell, and then drag its Fill Handle all the way down to apply the formula to other cells.
=IF(RIGHT(B3,1)=",",LEFT(B3,LEN(B3)-1),B3)
Then you can see all commas at the end of the strings are removed immediately.
Note: In this formula, B3 is the cell containing the text string from which you want to remove trailing comma. Please change it as you need.
How this formula works?
=IF(RIGHT(B3,1)=",",LEFT(B3,LEN(B3)-1),B3)
1. LEFT(B3,LEN(B3)-1)
- The LEN function calculates the total length of text string "Excel, handy, addin," and returns the result as 20;
- And then the LEFT function extract 19 (20-1=19) characters from the left side of the text string "Excel, handy, addin," and gets the result "Excel, handy, addin".
2. IF(RIGHT("Excel, handy, addin,",1)=",","Excel, handy, addin","Excel, handy, addin,")
- Here determines whether the rightmost value in text string "Excel, handy, addin," is a comma. If a comma is detected at the end of the string, it returns "Excel, handy, addin", otherwise, returns the original text string "Excel, handy, addin,".
Related functions
Excel IF function
The Excel IF function performs a simple logical test which depending on the comparison result, and it returns one value if a result is TRUE, or another value if result is FALSE.
Excel RIGHT function
The Excel RIGHT function extracts a specific number of characters from the right side of the text string.
Excel LEFT function
The Excel LEFT function extracts the given number of characters from the left side of a supplied string.
Excel LEN function
The Excel LEN function returns the number of characters in a text string.
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