
There’s an alternative way to split values in a Google Sheet. The output from the SPLIT function is an array of values that can be passed as the input into another formula, which may require the use of the Array Formula.
You can input a range as the first argument to the SPLIT function, but it requires an Array Formula wrapper to work. If there is already data in any of these cells, it does NOT overwrite it but instead shows a #REF! error message If it splits a text string into 4 elements then it requires 4 cells (including the one the formula is in) on that row to expand into. The SPLIT function requires enough “space” for its output. So “t” only splits on lower-case t’s in the text Delimiters in SPLIT are case sensitive. If this fourth argument is omitted or set to TRUE, then the blank cell is removed and “Bob” and “Jenny” appear in adjacent cells. Setting this final argument of the SPLIT function to FALSE results in a blank cell in the output. For example, suppose you’re splitting a text string with a "," and your string looks like this: “Ben,Bob,Jenny,Anna”īetween the names Bob and Jenny are two commas with no value between them. It specifies what to do with empty results in the SPLIT output. The fourth and final argument is optional and takes a TRUE or FALSE value only. The FALSE behavior does not consider the characters separately, and only divides on the entire delimiter.
The TRUE behavior splits by individual characters in the delimiter and any combination of them. This argument is optional and takes a TRUE or FALSE value only. This behavior can be controlled by the next argument: So a delimiter of “the” will split a text string on “the”, “he”,”t”,”h”,”e” etc. Note that by default, all characters are used in the division. The character or characters used to split the text. It can also be a reference to a cell with a value in, or even the output of a nested formula, provided that output is a string or value and not an array. This is the text string or value in the cell that you want to split.