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Default FIND 2nd character in a string

Perfect!!!
It worked!! Thank you....

Was wondering how to get the second "/" in that mid formula....
Coz i had used the mid as well as the find formula... just dint know how to
get the 2nd "/"

God Bless!

"Shane Devenshire" wrote:

Hi,

Suppose the string you are looking for 78445945 is always 8 characters, then

=MID(A1,FIND("/",A1,FIND("/",A1)+1)+1,8)

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Cheers,
Shane Devenshire


"Fuzzy" wrote:

how do i use the FIND function to get the 2nd character?

for eg:

A1 has 005/0101/78445945/2002

the entire column has strings like the above....

i want only those characters after the 2nd "/" and before the 3rd "/"
what formula to use?

in the above result, the answer should be - 78445945