Finding position of last period in filename
On Tue, 29 Mar 2011 07:14:53 -0400, Ron Rosenfeld
wrote:
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
Both solutions work perfectly. Thanks again.
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