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Default Help - Separating numbers appearing on the right of a text string

I need to separate the number from the right of a text string into its
own cell.


For example in the data:


"Salaries - Aides / Assistants 3708"
"Classroom Stationery & Materials 21"

I want to return 3708 and 21 as the value of the formula. Note that
there are spaces and the number lengths vary.

Does anybody know a formula I can write to extract this floating
numeric string which is not a fixed length and at the right of the text

string.

What this means is that I need to find the position from where the
numbers in the string start, and using the MID and LEN functions I can
specify this value to get the number extracted into its own cell.


Thanks.