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Mark B. Mark B. is offline
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Default Deleting characters after 3rd occurence of a string

Trying to systematically delete all characters after the 3rd occurence of a
string and not having much luck with the Len, right and substitute commands.

In a region of cells, some of the data contains values separated by the '/'
character. when a cell contains the '/' character 3 (or more) times, I'd
like to remove that character and all characters to the right of it.

Thus:

apple/banana/cherry/date would get truncated down to apple/banana/cherry
animal/vegetable would remain animal/vefetable


thoughts?


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Thanks,
Mark