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<body><span class="vcard"><a class="email" href="mailto:david_lynch@blueyonder.co.uk" title="David Lynch <david_lynch@blueyonder.co.uk>"> <span class="fn">David Lynch</span></a>
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href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=107369">bug 107369</a>
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<b><a class="bz_bug_link
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title="UNCONFIRMED - Enhancement to Calc function SUBSTITUTE"
href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=107369#c2">Comment # 2</a>
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title="UNCONFIRMED - Enhancement to Calc function SUBSTITUTE"
href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=107369">bug 107369</a>
from <span class="vcard"><a class="email" href="mailto:david_lynch@blueyonder.co.uk" title="David Lynch <david_lynch@blueyonder.co.uk>"> <span class="fn">David Lynch</span></a>
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<pre>My spreadsheets have frequent instances of code like:
=SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(E2,MID(G2,1,1),"",1),MID(G2,2,1),"",1),MID(G2,3,1),"",1),MID(G2,4,1),"",1),MID(G2,5,1),"",1),MID(G2,6,1),"",1),MID(G2,7,1),"",1),MID(G2,8,1),"",1),MID(G2,9,1),"",1),MID(G2,10,1),"",1),MID(G2,11,1),"",1),MID(G2,12,1),"",1),MID(G2,13,1),"",1),MID(G2,14,1),"",1),MID(G2,15,1),"",1)
... and the formula would be longer if it were legal to make it so.
My suggestion for enhancement would reduce this to a single call to substitute.
This code is calculating {E2}-{G2}, where {X} is the contents of cell X
regarded aa a set.</pre>
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