Excel formula has too many arguments - if-statement

I created the below formula to run of a series of customer numbers saved in text format.
=IFERROR(IF(AND((LEFT($J3,3)="028"),$N3=11),"NI Landline",IF(AND((LEFT($J3,2)="07"),$N3=11),"Mobile","Other Number")),"Other Number")
Breakdown:
=IFERROR(
IF(AND((LEFT($J3,3)="028"),$N3=11),
"NI Landline",
IF(AND((LEFT($J3,2)="07"),$N3=11),
"Mobile",
"Other Number")),
"Other Number")
This formula works fine but I needed to amend it slightly to differentiate the numbers a bit further, so I amended it to the below:
=IFERROR(IF(AND((LEFT($J2,3)="028"),$N2=11),"NI Landline",IF(AND((LEFT($J2,2)="07"),$N2=11),"UK Mobile",IF(AND((LEFT($J2,5)="00353"),$N2=14),"ROI Number","Other Number")),"Other Number")
Breakdown:
=IFERROR(
IF(AND((LEFT($J2,3)="028"),$N2=11),
"NI Landline",
IF(AND((LEFT($J2,2)="07"),$N2=11),
"UK Mobile",
IF(AND((LEFT($J2,5)="00353"),$N2=14),
"ROI Number",
"Other Number")),
="Other Number")
Thinking I've replicated the conditions from the first 'IF' sections, I ran the formula and it returned 'too many arguments'. I've removed the new section so that it is the same as the first formula, and it works fine. I've checked the parentheses but the number matches on both sides. Any ideas?
I'm hoping it is something stupid, any assistance would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks
Liam

you seem to be closing the brackets early for the and() statements : try removing the close brackets after 028" and 07" and 353"
So did a bit for the first two as per :
IF(AND(LEFT($J2,3)="028",$N2=11),"NI Landline",IF(AND((LEFT($J2,2)="07"),$N2=11),"UK Mobile","check"))
You should be able to expand from here.
Image to show the example :

"too many arguments" means the number of "," , , "(" & ")" is not right. Just double check for each if(a,b,c) iferror(a,b), and and(a,b,c) to have enough brackets, data/arguments and comma. That should be sufficient.
Note: #Solar Mike had shared a great solution though. (:

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VS Code if/else conditions with regular expression in user defined snippet

I am pretty bad at regex and need some help implementing my idea with the already complicated if-else syntax being used for user-defined snippets in VS Code.
I want to achieve the following:
Whenever I enter a number for variable $1 I want the snippet to create the
text "MAXVALUE $1" at the placeholder positon
if anything else is entered, there should be printed nothing
My current line for this with $1 being the variable I enter is:
"\t ${1/([0-9])|([a-zA-Z])/${1:+MAXVALUE }${2:+ }/}"
At this state I can capture the entire number EXCEPT the FRIST CHARACTER being entered and I can print MAXVALUE _mynumber_minus_char_at_index_0, LOL?!
If I enter a text, MAXVALUE won't be printed, but again the value from $1 minus the character at index 0 is being printed on screen.
Any help would be highly appreciated. If you got some useful links that explain advanced snippet creation for those kinda cases, I would be thankful as well.
For RegEx, well, time to learn them, so why not starting with a crazy-ass example like this - at least for me it is like rocket-science atm :D
Thanks in advance and best regards.
Using this snippet:
"Maxvalue": {
"prefix": "cll",
"body": [
"\t ${1/([0-9]+)|([a-zA-Z]+)/${1:+MAXVALUE }$1${2:+ }/}",
],
"description": "maxvalue"
},
([0-9]+) captures all the numbers you type; or
([a-zA-Z]+) captures all the letters you type
You were using ([0-9]) which captures, but more importantly
matches only the first number. If you don't match something it will not be transformed by the snippet transform, it just remains
untouched. That is why you were seeing everything but the first
number in the output.
You weren't actually outputting $1 anywhere - you see I added it to the transform after the MAXVALUE conditional.
${1:+MAXVALUE } is a conditional which means if there is a capture group 1, do something, in this case output MAXVALUE. That 1 in ${1:+MAXVALUE } is not a reference to your $1 tabstop. It is only a reference to the first capture group of your regex.
So you correctly outputted MAXVALUE when you had a capture group 1, but you didn't follow that up by outputting capture group 1 anywhere.
{2:+ } is anther conditional where the 2 refers to a capture group 2, if any, here ([a-zA-Z]+). So if there is a capture group 2, a space will be output. If there is no capture group 2, the conditional will fail and provide no output of its own. If you want nothing printed if you type letters, then match it and do nothing with it. As in the following:
"\t ${1/([0-9]+)|[a-zA-Z]+/${1:+MAXVALUE }$1/}", this will match all the letters you type (before tabbing to complete the transform) and they will disappear because you matched them and then didn't output them in the transform part anywhere.
If you simply want those letters to remain, don't match them as in
"\t ${1/([0-9]+)/${1:+MAXVALUE }$1/}"
If there is something you don't understand let me know.
[By the way, your question title mentions if/else conditions but you are using only if conditionals.]

Driving Licenses siebel Issue

I have florida driving licenses like A123-123-12-123-1 and A123456789321.Now I am using below expression to show my data like XXXX-XXX-XX-XX1231.
([\s.,:])([a-zA-Z)\d{12}|([a-zA-Z)\d{3}[\s{1}-]\d{2}[\s{1}-]\d{3}[\s{1}-]\d{1}([\s.,:]).
Please let me know how can i use above expression to remove all spaces form the expresson and display the format as i mentioned above.
Thanks
It seems there is a mismatch in the input and output, e.g.
A123-123-12-123-1
XXXX-XXX-XX-XX1231
there are two extra characters (ignoring dashes) in the desired output.
So assuming you want to make the output longer by repeating "12", e.g.
A123-123-12-123-1
A123-123-12-121231
Here is the code:
regex = /(?:[\s.,:])([a-zA-Z)(\d{3})[\s-]?(\d{3})[\s-]?(\d{2})[\s-]?(\d{2})(\d{1})[\s-]?(\d{1})(?:[\s.,:])/
fixed = licence.replace(regex, "$1$2-$3-$4-$5$5$6$7")

VB.Net Beginner: Replace with Wildcards, Possibly RegEx?

I'm converting a text file to a Tab-Delimited text file, and ran into a bit of a snag. I can get everything I need to work the way I want except for one small part.
One field I'm working with has the home addresses of the subjects as a single entry ("1234 Happy Lane Somewhere, St 12345") and I need each broken down by Street(Tab)City(Tab)State(Tab)Zip. The one part I'm hung up on is the Tab between the State and the Zip.
I've been using input=input.Replace throughout, and it's worked well so far, but I can't think of how to untangle this one. The wildcards I'm used to don't seem to be working, I can't replace ("?? #####") with ("??" + ControlChars.Tab + "#####")...which I honestly didn't expect to work, but it's the only idea on the matter I had.
I've read a bit about using Regex, but have no experience with it, and it seems a bit...overwhelming.
Is Regex my best option for this? If not, are there any other suggestions on solutions I may have missed?
Thanks for your time. :)
EDIT: Here's what I'm using so far. It makes some edits to the line in question, taking care of spaces, commas, and other text I don't need, but I've got nothing for the State/Zip situation; I've a bad habit of wiping something if it doesn't work, but I'll append the last thing I used to the very end, if that'll help.
If input Like "Guar*###/###-####" Then
input = input.Replace("Guar:", "")
input = input.Replace(" ", ControlChars.Tab)
input = input.Replace(",", ControlChars.Tab)
input = "C" + ControlChars.Tab + strAccount + ControlChars.Tab + input
End If
input = System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex.Replace(" #####", ControlChars.Tab + "#####") <-- Just one example of something that doesn't work.
This is what's written to input in this example
" Guar: LASTNAME,FIRSTNAME 999 E 99TH ST CITY,ST 99999 Tel: 999/999-9999"
And this is what I can get as a result so far
C 99999/9 LASTNAME FIRSTNAME 999 E 99TH ST CITY ST 99999 999/999-9999
With everything being exactly what I need besides the "ST 99999" bit (with actual data obviously omitted for privacy and professional whatnots).
UPDATE: Just when I thought it was all squared away, I've got another snag. The raw data gives me this.
# TERMINOLOGY ######### ##/##/#### # ###.##
And the end result is giving me this, because this is a chunk of data that was just fine as-is...before I removed the Tabs. Now I need a way to replace them after they've been removed, or to omit this small group of code from a document-wide Tab genocide I initiate the code with.
#TERMINOLOGY###########/##/########.##
Would a variant on rgx.Replace work best here? Or can I copy the code to a variable, remove Tabs from the document, then insert the variable without losing the tabs?
I think what you're looking for is
Dim r As New System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex(" (\d{5})(?!\d)")
Dim input As String = rgx.Replace(input, ControlChars.Tab + "$1")
The first line compiles the regular expression. The \d matches a digit, and the {5}, as you can guess, matches 5 repetitions of the previous atom. The parentheses surrounding the \d{5} is known as a capture group, and is responsible for putting what's captured in a pseudovariable named $1. The (?!\d) is a more advanced concept known as a negative lookahead assertion, and it basically peeks at the next character to check that it's not a digit (because then it could be a 6-or-more digit number, where the first 5 happened to get matched). Another version is
" (\d{5})\b"
where the \b is a word boundary, disallowing alphanumeric characters following the digits.

variable number of capturing groups

I have a xpath expression which I want to use to extract City and date from a td which contains a string of this kind:
City(may contain spaces and may be missing, but the following space is always present) on 2013/07/20
So far, I got to the following solution for extracting the date, which works partially:
//path/to/my/td/text()/replace(.,'(.*) on (.*)','$3')
This works when City is present, but when City is missing I get "on 2013/07/20" as a result.
I think this is because the first capturing group fails and so the number of groups is different.
How can I get this expression to work?
I did not fully check your regex, but it looks fine at first sight. Anyway, you can also go an easier way if you only want to get the date by extracting the text after "on ":
//path/to/my/td/text()/substring-after(.,'on ')
edit: or you may go the substring-way and select the last 10 characters of the content:
//path/to/my/td/text()/substring(., string-length(.) - 9)

How can I use regexextract function in Google Docs spreadsheets to get "all" occurrences of a string?

My text string is in cell D2:
Decision, ERC Case No. 2009-094 MC, In the Matter of the Application for Authority to Secure Loan from the National Electrification Administration (NEA), with Prayer for Issuance of Provisional Authority, Dinagat Island Electric Cooperative, Inc. (DIELCO) applicant(12/29/2011)
This function:
=regexextract(D2,"\([A-Z]*\)")
will grab (NEA) but not (DIELCO)
I would like it to extract both (NEA) and (DIELCO)
You can use capture groups, which will cause regexextract() to return an array. You can use this as the cell result, in which case you will get a range of results, or you can feed the array to another function to reformat it to your purpose. For example:
regexextract( "abracadabra" ; "(bra).*(bra)" )
will return the array:
{bra,bra}
Another approach would be to use regexreplace(). This has the advantage that the replace is global (like s/pattern/replacement/g), so you do not need to know the number of results in advance. For example:
regexreplace( "aBRAcadaBRA" ; "[a-z]+" ; "..." )
will return the string:
...BRA...BRA
Here are two solutions, one using the specific terms in the author's example, the other one expanding on the author's sample regex pattern which appears to match all ALLCAPS terms. I'm not sure which is wanted, so I gave both.
(Put the block of text in A1)
Generic solution for all words in ALLCAPS
=regexreplace(regexreplace(REGEXREPLACE(A1,"\b\w[^A-Z]*\b","|"),"\W+","|"),"^\||\|$","")
Result:
ERC|MC|NEA|DIELCO
NB: The brunt of the work is in the CAPITALIZED formula, the lowercase functions are just for cleanup.
If you want space separation, the formula is a little simpler:
=trim(regexreplace(REGEXREPLACE(A1,"\b\w[^A-Z]*\b"," "),"\W+"," "))
Result:
ERC MC NEA DIELCO
(One way I like playing with regex in google spreadsheets is to read the regex pattern from another cell so I can change it without having to edit or re-paste into all the cells using that pattern. This looks so:
Cell A1:
Block of text
Cell B1 (no quote marks):
\b\w[^A-Z]*\b
Formula, in any cell:
=trim(regexreplace(REGEXREPLACE(A1,B$1," "),"\W+"," "))
By anchoring it to B$1, I can fill all my rows at once and the reference won't increment.)
Previous answer:
Specific solution for selected terms (ERC, DIELCO)
=regexreplace(join("|",IF(REGEXMATCH(A1,"ERC"),"ERC",""),IF(REGEXMATCH(A1,"DIELCO"),"DIELCO","")),"(^\||\|$)","")
Result:
ERC|DIELCO
As before, the brunt of the work is in the CAPITALIZED formula, the lowercase functions are just for cleanup.
This formula will find any ERC or DIELCO, or both in the block of text. The initial order doesn't matter, but the output will always be ERC followed by DIELCO (the order of appearance is lost). This fixes the shortcoming with the previous answer using "(bra).*(bra)" in that isolated ERC or DIELCO can still be matched.
This also has a simpler form with space separation:
=trim(join(" ",IF(REGEXMATCH(A1,"ERC"),"ERC",""),IF(REGEXMATCH(A1,"DIELCO"),"DIELCO","")))
Result:
ERC DIELCO
Please try:
=SPLIT(regexreplace(A1 ; "(?s)(.)?\(([A-Z]+)\)|(.)" ; "🧸$2");"🧸")
or
=REGEXEXTRACT(A1;"\Q"&REGEXREPLACE(A1;"\([A-Z]+\)";"\\E(.*)\\Q")&"\E")