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Default FIND 2nd character in a string

Hi Fuzzy,

The Substitute function allows you to specify an instance # so that you can
identify where the 2nd instance of "/" is:

SUBSTITUTE(text,old_text,new_text,instance_num)

Substitute("\",a1,"unique character of your choice",2)

Then you can use Find:

Find("unique character of your choice",(substitute("\",a1,"unique character
of your choice",2),1)

Hope this helps.

Peggy

"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