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Default Extracting text before ~ sign

Sorry you wanted the text before the tilde

=LEFT(A1,FIND("~",A1)-1

Mike

"jhong" wrote:

Hi Everyone,


Please help me with your expertise. I have this type of data
(12345~Sample), that series is a code followed by the code name. Now I
want to get only the code after the ~ sign, my problem is the code is
not fix, some codes consist of 3 characters only so I cannot just use
the simple left(A1,#) formula.


Thanks in advance!


Jerome