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How to sum a conditional formula across multiple cells?

Hi, I'm looking for an elegant solution to this problem. Mostly just a curiosity because I currently do have it working, but I know there is a cleaner way to do this. Basically I am trying to sum the number values from a row of 5 cells, where the cell may or may not start with a letter (i.e., the row could be "8, 9, S6.5, 8, A6" and I want the result of 8+9+6.5+8+6=37.5). I have many rows of this, and the summed value ends up in the column to the right of the 5 values.

I've managed to do this with the following formula, where the result is in cell J5:

=IF(ISTEXT(E5), RIGHT(E5, LEN(E5)-1), E5) + IF(ISTEXT(F5), RIGHT(F5, LEN(F5)-1), F5) + IF(ISTEXT(G5), RIGHT(G5, LEN(G5)-1), G5) + IF(ISTEXT(H5), RIGHT(H5, LEN(H5)-1), H5) + IF(ISTEXT(I5), RIGHT(I5, LEN(I5)-1), I5) 

But, if I recall from years ago, there is a way to make the formula act on an array of cells using ctrl+shift+enter so the formula would essentially look like this, and do the same thing:

={SUM(IF(ISTEXT(E5:I5), RIGHT(E5:I5, LEN(E5:I5)-1), E5:I5))} 

Thing is, it doesn't seem to cooperate, and I have gotten pretty rusty with excel. This array formula will sum values but not if there is text in the cell.

Example data:

M T W Th F SUM
T8 T8 9 9 5 39
9 8 8 A8 8 41
8 8 8 8 8 40
S8 9.5 8 8 6 39.5
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