Hi,

I'm looking for a formula which helps me to extract text from a text string.

ie:

GBGD.6251.700001.netpay


GBGD.6251.700001.paye
GBGD.6251.700001.NI
GBGD.6251.700008.pension contribution
GBGD.6251.700020.EER
GBGD.6251.700021.EEE
And I'd like to extract only 700001,700008,700020& 700021.
I've looked at MID,LEN ect but not sure how i can use those formula for this purpose.

Can someone help me?
I also attached the Excel example.

Many thanks

Attached Files

Book1.xlsx (8.7 KB, 14 views)

With your data in A2:B7 enter in C2:

=--MID(A2,FIND(".",A2,FIND(".",A2)+1)+1,FIND(".",A2,F IND(".",A2,FIND(".",A2)+1)+1)-FIND(".",A2,FIND(".",A2)+1)-1)

Copy down.

Or
Data
Text to columns
Fixed width
Insert break lines
In the last window select "Do not import" for the unnecessary columns

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Or

=TRIM(LEFT(RIGHT(SUBSTITUTE(D4,".",REPT(" ",100)),200),100))

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This works the wonder!!!

Just wondering why "--"?

Many thanks

It's called a double unary and it's used to convert true/false to 1/0

This may be a good place to start with an explanation...

Double Unary

Thank you for this. I tried but dont think it will work as will delete the original data

Many thanks