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Hi, I want to return the words/ string of words after the last divider "/".
e.g. in Column A, there are Society/Education/University/USA Society/Education/University/USA/University of Chicago Family/babies Leisure/Outdoor/camping I want to return: USA University of Chicago babies camping in Column B. The number of "/" is variable in each row. I only know how to return the value after a specific count of "/", like: =mid(a1, search("/", A1, 2), Len(A1)) to return University/USA But I don't know how to return the value counting from the last "/". Can anyone help me? Thanks! |
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Try this:
=RIGHT(A1,LEN(A1)-SEARCH("^^^",SUBSTITUTE(A1,"/","^^^",LEN(A1)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(A1,"/",""))))) -- HTH, RD --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please keep all correspondence within the NewsGroup, so all may benefit ! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Landa" wrote in message ... Hi, I want to return the words/ string of words after the last divider "/". e.g. in Column A, there are Society/Education/University/USA Society/Education/University/USA/University of Chicago Family/babies Leisure/Outdoor/camping I want to return: USA University of Chicago babies camping in Column B. The number of "/" is variable in each row. I only know how to return the value after a specific count of "/", like: =mid(a1, search("/", A1, 2), Len(A1)) to return University/USA But I don't know how to return the value counting from the last "/". Can anyone help me? Thanks! |
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Assuming that A2 contains the text string, try...
=REPLACE(A2,1,FIND("^^",SUBSTITUTE(A2,"/","^^",LEN(A2)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(A2, "/","")))),"") Hope this helps! In article , Landa wrote: Hi, I want to return the words/ string of words after the last divider "/". e.g. in Column A, there are Society/Education/University/USA Society/Education/University/USA/University of Chicago Family/babies Leisure/Outdoor/camping I want to return: USA University of Chicago babies camping in Column B. The number of "/" is variable in each row. I only know how to return the value after a specific count of "/", like: =mid(a1, search("/", A1, 2), Len(A1)) to return University/USA But I don't know how to return the value counting from the last "/". Can anyone help me? Thanks! |
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Thank you very much RagDyer and Domenic. Both of your suggestions works!!:)
"Domenic" wrote: Assuming that A2 contains the text string, try... =REPLACE(A2,1,FIND("^^",SUBSTITUTE(A2,"/","^^",LEN(A2)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(A2, "/","")))),"") Hope this helps! In article , Landa wrote: Hi, I want to return the words/ string of words after the last divider "/". e.g. in Column A, there are Society/Education/University/USA Society/Education/University/USA/University of Chicago Family/babies Leisure/Outdoor/camping I want to return: USA University of Chicago babies camping in Column B. The number of "/" is variable in each row. I only know how to return the value after a specific count of "/", like: =mid(a1, search("/", A1, 2), Len(A1)) to return University/USA But I don't know how to return the value counting from the last "/". Can anyone help me? Thanks! |
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And we thank you for the feed-back.
-- Regards, RD --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please keep all correspondence within the NewsGroup, so all may benefit ! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Landa" wrote in message ... Thank you very much RagDyer and Domenic. Both of your suggestions works!!:) "Domenic" wrote: Assuming that A2 contains the text string, try... =REPLACE(A2,1,FIND("^^",SUBSTITUTE(A2,"/","^^",LEN(A2)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(A2, "/","")))),"") Hope this helps! In article , Landa wrote: Hi, I want to return the words/ string of words after the last divider "/". e.g. in Column A, there are Society/Education/University/USA Society/Education/University/USA/University of Chicago Family/babies Leisure/Outdoor/camping I want to return: USA University of Chicago babies camping in Column B. The number of "/" is variable in each row. I only know how to return the value after a specific count of "/", like: =mid(a1, search("/", A1, 2), Len(A1)) to return University/USA But I don't know how to return the value counting from the last "/". Can anyone help me? Thanks! |
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