On Mon, 28 Mar 2011 22:37:18 -0400, "Rick Rothstein" wrote:

B1:
=LEFT(A1,FIND(CHAR(1),SUBSTITUTE(A1,".",CHAR(1),LE N(A1)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(A1,".",""))))-1)

C1: =TRIM(RIGHT(SUBSTITUTE(A1,".",REPT(" ",99)),99))

Perhaps, since we know what C1 will contain, this simpler formula for B1...

B1: =SUBSTITUTE(A1,"."&C1,"")

Rick

I don't like that because it fails if the suffix happens to also exist within the first part of the extract.

e.g.:

A1: This.is.the.DOCument.filename.DOC