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  1. 01-21-2021, 04:49 PM #1
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    Formula using mid and length not working in the last part of formula - but not sure why

    Hi all,

    I'm tring to combin the MID and Length function to remove text both at the start and end of some text.

    The text in my real document always starts with the same 18 characters which I need to remove - and I can get the formula to do that. But then I also need to remove the very last character of the text and I just can't get the formula to remove that last character, but I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong.

    I've spent hours googling this and just getting no where and wondered if anyone had any ideas on where I am going wrong?

    The example I've attached shows how the text in my spreadsheet is structured, the formula I'm using, the result I get vs what I would like to achieve.

    Any advice would be much appreciated.

    Thanks in advance to anyone who has time to look at this. !
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    Re: Formula using mid and length not working in the last part of formula - but not sure wh

    Try this:

    =SUBSTITUTE(MID(A2,FIND("(",A2)+1,99),")","")
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    Re: Formula using mid and length not working in the last part of formula - but not sure wh

    HI AliGW

    thanks for this, this works

    Although I have no idea how this works. I think I can understand what parts of the formula do, but what is the function of the 1,99 ?

    Thanks so much again !
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    Re: Formula using mid and length not working in the last part of formula - but not sure wh

    The character where ( is found is one before the start of the text to extract, so add one to it. 99 because that’s a large enough figure to cover whatever is in the brackets, I hope, but could be larger if you wished.
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    Re: Formula using mid and length not working in the last part of formula - but not sure wh

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    Re: Formula using mid and length not working in the last part of formula - but not sure wh

    Formula for B2 =MID(A2,19,LEN(A2)-19)
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    Re: Formula using mid and length not working in the last part of formula - but not sure wh

    Hi mehmetcik

    Thanks for this ! That also works perfectly. This formula I can more clearly understand the syntax of, although I'm not quite sure how it manages to remove the last bracket from the text in column A. Either way, this also does the job, so thank you
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    Re: Formula using mid and length not working in the last part of formula - but not sure wh

    It's not such a flexible solution, as it will only work if the text lengths are the same as your example. My solution is more flexible, as it allows any number of characters before the extracted text and up to 99 within the brackets. It gets rid of the final bracket by substituting it with a null value "".

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    Re: Formula using mid and length not working in the last part of formula - but not sure wh

    Thanks AliGW, that's really helpful!

    And sorry, I had a really busy day at work. I'll mark it as solved as soon as I get back onto my laptop in the morning.

    Thanks again !
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