Assuming the date of interest is *always* immediately after the 5th
underscore and is *always* in the format mm/dd/yyyy.

=--MID(A1,FIND("^^",SUBSTITUTE(A1,"_","^^",5))+1,10)

Format as Date

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Biff
Microsoft Excel MVP


"Cathy Landry" wrote in message
...
Hi Mike,

Thank you for the super quick response!! Unfortunately, not every line
will
not be the same length however the transaction date field will always be
the
second date field referenced.

"Mike H" wrote:

Hi,

It may be as simple as this if all your strings are the same length

=MID(A1,30,10)

Mike

"Cathy Landry" wrote:

Hello,

We have concatenated data loaded into Oracle in att 5. I have exported
this
to Excel and now need to pull out the transaction dates and put them
into
another column. The data below shows what is contained in one cell and
the
transaction date is the second date listed that I need pulled into a
separate
cell in Excel

Any help would be appreciated!

24493989153026554078566-1_629430_198_7661_06/02/2009_06/01/2009_06/10/2009_06/16/2009_384149_2361257_3487911_72703_584423_E1C73691_ 4789

Thank you!
Cathy