Thanks guys Mike's solution worked

"Teethless mama" wrote:

Try this:

=TRIM(MID(SUBSTITUTE(A1,",",REPT("
",99)),SEARCH("mpp\",SUBSTITUTE(A1,",",REPT(" ",99)))+4,99))


"AMH" wrote:

I want to search for a number after a specific piece of text in a string, the
number can be 1 to 4 characters in length and will finish with either a comma
or a space, format like this :

.mpp\????, or .mpp\???? (with the question marks being numeric between 1
and 9999)

Any help would be much appreciated