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Default Extract text from a string

I have the following cells

A1 = Joe Bloggs[20%]
A2 = Fred Astair[5%]

I would like to pull the percentage out of the name into another cell. At
the moment I have

MID(A1,SEARCH("[",A1)+1,3)

However this won't work for a percentage under 10, like 5%.
Also, there are occasions when there is no percentage in brackets, just the
person's name - is there a way of allowing for this without using an extra IF
statement?

Thanks,

Ellebelle
 
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