The formula SPLIT(CELL,DELIMITER) fills multiple cells, but i want only for example the first result. How to do this?
In general: when a Google formula returns multiple answers (normally in a represented in a range), how do you only return one value in that range?
UPDATE: I found out the specific case aboven is also possible to solve it with regular expressions for everyone interested:
I found another solution by using regular expression. In this case I want everything up to the ( symbol: =REGEXEXTRACT(CELL;"(.+?) \(") it matches the part between (.+?) and the . means everything, the + means at least one character and the ? means nongreedy, so it will stop when encountering the rest of the expression (which is the ( symbol). Also to avoid the #N/A error when there is no ( symbol, you write: IFNA(REGEXEXTRACT(C116;"(.+?) \(");C116)
I'm not sure I fully understand your goal. But suppose you had the following string in cell A1:
A,B,C,D,E
You could obtain A with this formula:
=INDEX(SPLIT(A1,","),1,1)
If you wanted to have an array formula process similar strings in the entire column A:A, you would use this in, say, B1 (with the rest of B:B empty):
=ArrayFormula(IF(A:A="",,ARRAY_CONSTRAIN(SPLIT(A:A,","),ROWS(A:A),1)))